At 07:40 PM 6/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I am hoping someone in here can knock me upside the and help me here..... > >I think I must be missing something here. I have a disk /dev/hdc which I >used a long time ago to back up some files off of my laptop when I >upgraded. The partitions are not normally mounted. However, I am going >to be moving a bunch of files around pretty soon and I wanted to see what >I had on that disk and perhaps weed some of it out. here is a fdisk -l of >/dev/hdc: > >Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14946 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hdc1 * 1 17 136521 83 Linux >/dev/hdc2 18 3842 30724312+ 83 Linux > >Now, if I try to mount either partition here is what I get: > >mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/temp/ >mount: you must specify the filesystem type > >However, I have tried specifying the only 3 real file systems that I use: >ext2, ext3, fat* and it still won't mount. I am reasonably sure that I >remember making the filesystems and putting stuff on the disk, but I >cannot get them mounted no matter what I do. > >Is there a tool out there that will look at the partition and tell you if >there is actually data or some sort of a filesystem on there?
Isn't there one called fsck? As in fsck /dev/hdc2 -r The -r option tells it to do an interactive check. >I think I must just be missing something here....? Or I am mistaken and I >didn't really put the files there to begin with? > >Thanks, >Shannon >
