On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:38 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > file -Ls /dev/hda1 > > Wow, thanks Nick! You can leave out the -L though, but need the -s. > > It consistently fails on hdX5:
Isn't hdX5 the extended partition, which is a wrapper for the partitions within it? Or do I have that wrong? (I don't have any computers with more than 4 partitions per disk any more) (the x86 partitioning scheme is worse than the 640k memory limit, at least in linux we can ignore the 640k business!) > > /dev/hdc5: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48 > > It may well be correct that there is a boot sector, but it fails to find > the reiser partition, like in > > /dev/hdc6: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks > 1144592 r5 hash > > Volker > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
