On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted": > You can do it the same way the kernel does it in the early boot stages > - by getting the information from lilo, via the boot record. You'll > need to read and parse the boot record, though. Mounting each file > system and checking may very well be easiser...
If this is supposed to be a "hack" and not something that must generally work, you can try "fdisk -l" and look for bootable Linux partitions. In many installations the root partition will be exactly of this type. On other installations, though, you might catch a special "/boot" partition, not the "/" partition, or none at all (lilo doesn't strictly need the partition to be bootable). Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub, not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot record isn't foolproof either. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Feb 17 2003, 15 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |The world is coming to an end ... SAVE http://nadav.harel.org.il |YOUR BUFFERS!!! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
