On 2003.06.25 19:40 Shannon Roddy 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? > > 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 >
Type 83 is swap file? I thought type 82 was a "normal" ext2. Try mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt -t swap Bad pun - using type 83 as a normal partiton would be odd.
