Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 07:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l no!!! Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Iain Buchanan wrote: You can't just mount the puppy either (and let mount do the work) Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation linuxrc as to what formatting was provided. it mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: You can't just mount the puppy either (and let mount do the work) Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Jolet
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l no!!! Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Myers
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:05, Iain Buchanan wrote: are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this will just show what you've told the partition it is. 'file' determines filetypes primarily by looking for 'magic numbers' within the file, so 'file' should indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread John Jolet
Fdisk -l On 2/10/06 3:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to determine if a partition is formated, and the type of formating, other than trying to mount it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l no!!! Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as