Re: mount partition or disk
Jiri Baum wrote:
>
> Jiri Baum:
> > > 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.
>
> ktb (kent):
> > This is a little out of my league but could you use cfdisk?
>
> I don't see how...
>
> cfdisk and fdisk are interactive programs for manipulating partitions; if
> the disk is not partitioned, they read rubbish from the disk and let me
> manipulate that. If I accidentally save it, I've probably just destroyed
> the filesystem.
>
> (Maybe I wasn't clear in my original mail; my problem isn't a blank disk
> that I want to partition; my problem is a box of disks full of data, some
> of which are partitioned like hard disks, others formatted in one piece
> like floppies.)
>
No you were clear:) I've used cfdisk to look at my first hard drive
because I was curious as to how it was partitioned not because I wanted
to manipulate the partitions. Your situation is a little different than
what I used it for, just thought it might work for you. Sorry it
didn't.
kent
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