Formatting hd.

[vdemarco]

i have a "SAMSUNG HD501LJ" disk hooked up to the router.

Its a 500GB hard disk but its showing up as a 0.18 GB hd instead.

I have a mac, so formatting the disk on another machine is hard (I can do if i must).

But i ran fdisk /dev/sda1

(after unmounting the disk) to make a new partition, but it only allows me to type in 25 cylinders for the partition table, (fdisk will not accept a number larger than that)

so then i run mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 it formats the disk but the size is still 0.18 GB.

What am i doing wrong?

Vince

 

[RMerlin]

i have a "SAMSUNG HD501LJ" disk hooked up to the router.

Its a 500GB hard disk but its showing up as a 0.18 GB hd instead.

I have a mac, so formatting the disk on another machine is hard (I can do if i must).

But i ran fdisk /dev/sda1

(after unmounting the disk) to make a new partition, but it only allows me to type in 25 cylinders for the partition table, (fdisk will not accept a number larger than that)

so then i run mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 it formats the disk but the size is still 0.18 GB.

What am i doing wrong?

Vince

You tried to partition a partition. You need to rather do this to partition the disk:

fdisk /dev/sda

 

[vdemarco]

You tried to partition a partition. You need to rather do this to partition the disk:

fdisk /dev/sda

Thanks worked great