Re: mount partition or disk

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> 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?

You can do this with `fdisk -l /dev/sda'.  You either have to be a
member of group disk, or be root, or mess with the default permissions
(not advisable) to issue this command.

HTH,
Eric

-- 
 E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)