On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I > can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what > partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted > windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and > fs-type).
This is why I write down the partitioning scheme on a scrap of paper and tape it to the *inside* of the case access panel (or just write it in pencil on the inside of the panel itself). > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Trial and error at this point. cfdisk will tell you the partition type and size, which might give you some clues. Good luck! -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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