On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:08:58PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > That's partial success. Is there a filesystem on the drive yet?
> > Try "cfdisk /dev/sda" or ""fdisk /dev/sda", then "p"". You
> > should see "sda1, sda2,etc.." if you have more than one
> > partition. Then you can mount the appropriate one.
>
> Also "fdisk -l /dev/sda". That prints the partition table
> with no opportunity to overwrite it.
A little less standard UNIX but even more useful IMO is the equivalent
with cfdisk: cfdsik -P s /dev/sda
The -P (print) command takes an argument of r, s, or t. r is the raw hex
dump of the partition table. If you can read this, you don't need no
steenkeng fdisk! t is a pretty raw (but human-readable) table of what
partitions take up what space, in CHS format. s is what you want--where
the partition is, what type, where it starts, where it stops, and how big
it is. This is most useful for humans, I find.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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