try this:
su [to root]
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdf
once you're in-- type `m' for menu -- you'll get something like this:
Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)
From here-- put in `p' for print partition table
on my laptop [being discussed and mocked in another thread] the
partition table shows up:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1306 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1307 12160 87184755 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1307 1829 4200966 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 1830 12160 82983726 83 Linux
If you do `l' to list the partition types you get the following list:
Command (m for help): l
0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris
boot
1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf
Solaris
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1
DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4
DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6
DRDOS/sec (FAT-
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7
Syrinx
6 FAT16 42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS
data
7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M /
CTOS / .
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell
Utility
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df
BootIt
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS
access
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS
R/O
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4
SpeedStor
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS
fs
f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI
GPT
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI
(FAT-12/16/
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0
Linux/PA-RISC b
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1
SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4
SpeedStor
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS
secondary
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux
raid auto
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe
LANstep
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff
BBT
1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX
Unfortunately-- this will NOT tell you if a partition is formatted with
ext2/ext3/reiserfs etc... it only really helps you find linux/swap/dos
etc...
But from here-- you should be able to see if you should mount /dev/hdf1
or hdf6 or whatever.
From here-- you'll want to put your entries in the /etc/fstab file.
While you're trying to figure out which filesystems you have-- I'd
recommend putting them in as read only so you don't trash anything.
Another option would be to test drive all these by amnually issuing the
mount command until you can read something-- then fill in the /etc/fstab
file appropriately.
an example of the /etc/fstab file from my work machine shows the
switches for read only [ro] on the /dev/cdrom -- make sure you put this
in as you're test driving filesystems so you don't trash anything.
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /scratch ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey auto
noauto,noatime,users,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbext2 ext2
noauto,noatime,users,rw 0 0
Justin Gedge
Al Byers wrote:
I am running SUSE 9.1 and I would like to throw in the main drive from
an old RH 9 machine and get some info off of it. The system sees it as
/dev/hdf but I can't mount it or determine its filesystem (I guess
there could be several). Does this have something to do with the way
that the super block is written? Anyway, is there a way around this
problem?
Thanks,
Al Byers
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