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trying to use fdisk to remove a partition on an sd card but it won't budge. I have a 32Gb sd card, that claims 28Gb free, so on typing df -h, there is an old partition I named "test" sitting there as a boot partition on the disk.
Run fdisk /dev/sda
d to delete partition
quit
and it's still there, I expected to get an error message saying it can't read an empty disk without a partition on it.
How do I get rid of this annoying part? I have 60 of these to reformat.
Thanks guys, I'm going to go this Emerson's suggestion as I understand that one, it's something I have used before. I will look at the others a if I can't get it to work, but it I think it should.
Thanks guys, I'm going to go this Emerson's suggestion as I understand that one
What in michaelk's response was not understandable? In fdisk, everything you do is temporary until you hit "w" to write the changes to the disk. If you make a bunch of changes and then just quit out of it, like you said you did in your OP, it won't do anything.
Ah, ok, I didn't know that, that will be what the issue was then, will try tomorrow and feedback solution for any other newbies like meself. Thank you.
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