From: Michael Milligan <milli@acmeps.com>
To: CACook@quantum-sci.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot Create Partition
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:07:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3D5D68.5010205@acmeps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101231007.55046.CACook@quantum-sci.com>
CACook@quantum-sci.com wrote:
> On /dev/sda I have sda1 which is my / bootable filesystem for Debian formatted ext4. This is 256MB on a 2TB drive.
>
> I want to set up the rest of the drive as BTRFS for various functions, and I presume that I first have to create a partition using fdisk for this? Since my first part is ext4? So I:
> # fdisk /dev/sda
> WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Do exactly as you are instructed here. Use parted. fdisk doesn't
support GPT partition tables, only MS-DOS tables.
# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) []
Now, type "help" if you are stumped. Or perhaps "man parted". Or even
use gparted since that's the graphical version and much easier to drive.
Regards,
Mike
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-24 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 18:07 Cannot Create Partition CACook
2011-01-23 18:23 ` Hugo Mills
2011-01-24 3:07 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-01-24 11:07 ` Michael Milligan [this message]
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