# Question regarding Filesystem/partition manipulation

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902 "2021-08-26T04:46:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Priest\_Apostate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@Priest\_Apostate](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Priest_Apostate)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902/1 "2021-08-26T04:46:16Z")

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I’m studying for the RHCSA, and am currently working with **fdisk** and **parted** to learn more about creating, configuring, using, and deleting partititions - to this end, I purchased a 128GB USB drive for my Rocky VM (latest version), which is being administered by Virtualbox, version 6.1.

After a bit of work, I was finally able to have VM see the USB drive - but, before I could begin in creating partitions, I noticed that while the overall space was noticed, the partitions within the drive show wildly different readings for their individual space - and I don’t know why:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/2/2d4d7df50aa18f73f12ddb0a710cf5d0c362ae90.png)

I tried looking around for information on why that is the case - but I haven’t been able to find much. Has anyone run into this - and, could you provide some insight on why I am seeing drastically different readings on the partitions’ space, vs. the overall drive’s space?

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**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902/2 "2021-08-26T07:59:23Z")

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First a tip: you can probably copy-paste text from terminal. Text is nicer to handle in post than bitmap images.

What output do you get with

```auto
sudo lsblk

```

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**Author:** ![smeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@smeier](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/smeier)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902/3 "2021-08-26T09:01:33Z")

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The first output for `/dev/sdb` looks fine.

Running fdisk on `/dev/sdb1`, which is already a partition, makes no sense and therefore gives you garbage data.

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/question-regarding-filesystem-partition-manipulation/3902/4 "2023-08-25T04:06:09Z")

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Closed on August 25, 2023, 4:06am UTC