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If that is right, and fdisk is reading it as swap when its a linux
filesystem, you should be able to just change it to a linux partition,
and your data will be fine. =20
You use a method similar to this when resizing reiserfs partitions,
which i just did a few days ago to install qnx.

--mat

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 22:03, will hill wrote:
> On 2003.06.25 19:40 Shannon Roddy wrote:
> > I am hoping someone in here can knock me upside the and help me here...=
..
> >=20
> > I think I must be missing something here.  I have a disk /dev/hdc which=
=20
> > I used a long time ago to back up some files off of my laptop when I=20
> > upgraded.  The partitions are not normally mounted.  However, I am goin=
g=20
> > to be moving a bunch of files around pretty soon and I wanted to see=20
> > what I had on that disk and perhaps weed some of it out.  here is a=20
> > fdisk -l of /dev/hdc:
> >=20
> >     Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14946 cylinders
> >     Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >=20
> >        Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> >     /dev/hdc1   *         1        17    136521   83  Linux
> >     /dev/hdc2            18      3842  30724312+  83  Linux
> >=20
> > Now, if I try to mount either partition here is what I get:
> >=20
> >     mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/temp/
> >     mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >=20
> > However, I have tried specifying the only 3 real file systems that I=20
> > use: ext2, ext3, fat* and it still won't mount.  I am reasonably sure=20
> > that I remember making the filesystems and putting stuff on the disk,=20
> > but I cannot get them mounted no matter what I do.
> >=20
> > Is there a tool out there that will look at the partition and tell you=20
> > if there is actually data or some sort of a filesystem on there?
> >=20
> > I think I must just be missing something here....?  Or I am mistaken an=
d=20
> > I didn't really put the files there to begin with?
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> > Shannon
> >=20
>=20
> Type 83 is swap file?  I thought type 82 was a "normal" ext2.  Try
>=20
> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt -t swap
>=20
> Bad pun - using type 83 as a normal partiton would be odd.
>=20
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