<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px"></div><div>Oh boy, I had forgotten that. I got confused because I had just done the same thing (that is, power up, and go straight with mkfs -t ext4) on another disk from another brand, without any problem. Probably that disk had come with a partition table from factory, and this had nothing at all, instead?</div><div><br></div><div>I am not at my computer right now, but will try running fdisk to create the partition/partition table later today. In the meantime, further feedback/comments/pointer remain very welcome!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div>Marco<br><div></div><br><br><div data-anchor="reply-title">On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 12:05, Volker Wysk <post@volker-wysk.de> wrote:</div><blockquote><div>Am Samstag, den 23.05.2020, 11:42 +0200 schrieb M. Fioretti:<br><blockquote>On Sat, May 23, 2020 05:28:32 AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:<br><br><blockquote>Even if you are going to format the whole drive to one filesystem,<br>you <br>still need a partition table.</blockquote><br><br>sorry, I'm surely missing something basic here, but... why would I<br>need to pass a partition table, if I understand your question?<br><br>Doesn't "mkfs -t ext4" just means "the hell with whatever is on that<br>disk, make of it one ext4 partition, and you create a partition<br>table"?</blockquote><br><br>No, the partitioning is done by a separate program, such as fdisk or<br>gdisk. "mkfs" won't do any partitioning.<br><br>Bye<br>Volker<br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a></div></blockquote></div></body></html>