a partition table is just binary ones and zeros. there are different kinds of partition tables. it has to read the ones and zeros to determine if, or which kind of, partition table is there. winblows reads those ones and zeros, determines it is NOT a partition table, but that it *IS* a filesystem. why is gparted too unwilling to do that? just as a safety mechanism. If I try to do something, is asks me several times, "are you sure?", all data will be wiped out. maybe if it can, it should warn me there is data on the disk that that will be wiped out if I make any changes. maybe I'm confused on details. is there a function in gparted to figure out what is on the disk? Maybe I need to invoke such an option. or is it a different program? long ago I had a disk with a damaged somehow damaged, and some program tried to recreate filesystems or partitions or something, i don't remember at this point. <pre>--Carey</pre>
On 10/23/2024 3:29 PM CDT D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
From: CAREY SCHUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
So winblows allows usb (and probably internal) disks to be formated EXFAT but without any partition table.
WHAT POSSIBLE EXCUSE is there for gparted to not recognize this? Obviously winblows can detect there is data, directories, etc on the device, why not GParted?
gparted is a partition editor. It doesn't recognize data, directories, etc. It recognizes partitions and filesystem contained inside partitions.
A disk containing only a filesystem has no partitions.
Since there are no partitions, gparted has nothing to operate on.
What would you have it do?
Perhaps partition the drive? It can do that. But you will lose any existing filesystem.
From what you say elsewhere, this particular filesystem contains nothing of interest yet. So go ahead: partition the drive. Put new, empty filesystem(s) in the new partition(s). --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk