Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >You can't just "mount the puppy" either (and let mount do the work) > > > > > Are you sure? > While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted > the disk partitions without caring to tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Iain Buchanan wrote: >You can't just "mount the puppy" either (and let mount do the work) > > Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation linuxrc as to what formatting was provided. it mounted rei

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 07:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: > >> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Fdisk -l > > > > no!!! > > > >> Even easier: > >> waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 > >> /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS fi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Myers
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:05, Iain Buchanan wrote: > are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this > will just show what you've "told" the partition it is. > 'file' determines filetypes primarily by looking for 'magic numbers' within the file, so 'file' should indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Jolet
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: >> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Fdisk -l > > no!!! > >> Even easier: >> waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) > > are you sure? At lea

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: > On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fdisk -l no!!! > Even easier: > waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fdisk -l > > Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread John Jolet
Fdisk -l On 2/10/06 3:41 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to determine if a partition is formated, and the type > of formating, other than trying to mount it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread acaudel
Is there a way to determine if a partition is formated, and the type of formating, other than trying to mount it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list