Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net> wrote
(on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500):
> 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?
Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the
partitioning using fdisk.
Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can
only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and
access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the
data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard
drive (instead of removable media)...
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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