Drive (s) wrecked?

posted 1 year ago

I have some drives of various sizes, 1TB, 2TB etc. I am currently working with a 2 TB drive. I place it in a powered external USB-3 drive enclosure. I can see it in lsblk as the correct size (as SDA) , but the disk manager does not see /dev/sda, and fdisk only wants to let me create a 5 GB partition.

If I dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=400K status=progress writes 5 GB and claims my 2 TB drive (In this case) is full.

Is there a way to reclaim this drive? Any information on the drive is unimportant.

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lynny@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

Try in another computer if you have one. The fact dd is limiting you to 5GB though doesn’t sound good, not going to lie.

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WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOP

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1 year ago

I do not have another available, nor do I have an internal SATA slot available.

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