Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

assuming your disk is intact
	fdisk -l /dev/hdd

and add/guess which partitions belong to which mountpoint

mount /dev/hdd1  /mnt/test
ls -la /mnt/test  to guess if its /var or /usr or /home
umount /mnt/test
...

when you're all done ....
	fdisk -l /dev/hdd > /etc/safe-place/rc.parition.txt
	cat /etc/fstab >> /etc/safe-place/rc.partiton.txt
	( a [cr/h]acker might wanna casue you grief w/o doing rm -rf )

c ya
alvin

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

> I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night,
> and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into
> my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I
> can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what
> partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted
> windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and
> fs-type).
> 
> How can I determine the drive's partition scheme?
>