Re: mount partition or disk

[ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>]

Jiri Baum wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is
> partitioned, please?
> 
> What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks)
> and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1,
> with others /dev/sda directly.
> 
> (The disks have existing data on them, written under DOS, obviously various
> versions of either DOS or the driver.)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

This is a little out of my league but could you use cfdisk?
kent