Using VMWare ESX, a Virtual machine, connected to external storage. This external storage is /dev/sdb in my machine.
$ fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x35ea51e3.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
cfdisk just shows the entire volume as free space.
parted shows it as:
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00kB 268GB 268GB ext3
The reason i ask is because i want to use resize2fs to resize the file system to a smaller partition, now it is 250 gb.. i know i've to disable journalling first.. the problem is... there is no partition to resize if it doesnt show up in fdisk.
Any suggestions ? its a production server, that cannot afford downtime.. but if necessary i can rsync all data elsewhere and reformat the entire disk.. that however.. is a very very last resort.
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