On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Marvin Pascual <bin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can use a similar command below to check whether the partition is > formatted or not: > > testdisk /list $BLOCK_DEVICE | tail -n 1 | grep -i Partition > > If there will be an output to the above command, that only shows that > the block device is not formatted. > > Thank you, Zak! ;-)
No prob! :) > Now, whether or not the block device contains already any file(s) or > directory(ies) other than the lost+found directory for the ext2/3/4 > filesystem. That would probably make creative use of debugfs :) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
