Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi On Tue, 13 Apr, 1999 à 07:54:29PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? A valid partition table must contains a signature consisting of the two bytes AA55 (or 55AA, I'm not sure) as the two last bytes

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread ktb
Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, with others /dev/sda

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Jiri Baum: is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, with others /dev/sda directly.

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread ktb
Jiri Baum wrote: Jiri Baum: is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, with

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello, is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, with others /dev/sda directly. (The