Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-12 Thread Andrew
On 10/03/2015 22:29, Tim wrote: *The reason I am doing this is that these terminal are Linux based and they have a built in RDP client, I am having issue with running RDP on my PC so I was hoping to glean some info from one of these terminals. In case it is relevant, I have been using Remmina

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
I find newer Windows systems will only work with xfreerdp instead of the rdesktop ( http://www.rdesktop.org/ ) program I've always used, unless you specifically modify their security settings. On 11 March 2015 at 15:13, Andrew wrote: > On 10/03/2015 22:29, Tim wrote: > >> *The reason I am doing

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-11 Thread Tim
On 10/03/15 13:37, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Andrew wrote: Tim wrote: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1021MB 1021MB primary boot You can avoid those awkward units, by getting it in bytes, with sudo parte

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-11 Thread Tim
On 10/03/15 13:37, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Andrew wrote: Tim wrote: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1021MB 1021MB primary boot You can avoid those awkward units, by getting it in bytes, with sudo parte

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > > After attempting to mount it, have a look at the end of dmesg(1)'s > > output for any information from the kernel filesystem modules about > > what they did or didn't like. > > Strangely my system does not have a dmesg log file, I had a good > search (looked in the normal /var/log/ ) b

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, Andrew wrote: > Tim wrote: > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > > 1 32.3kB 1021MB 1021MB primary boot You can avoid those awkward units, by getting it in bytes, with sudo parted /dev/sdd unit B print That then gi

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-09 Thread Andrew
'file' seems to work on here, but you need to add '-s' to use it on special files. 'sudo file -s /dev/sdd*' works here to tell me that I have an x86 boot sector on /dev/sdd and an ext4 filesystem on /dev/sdd1. Adding '-k' shows more information. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth,

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-09 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Is it definitely Linux? It's not BSD and a UFS file system is it? I can't remember but if you point "file" at a block device does it attempt to guess the FS? On Monday, 9 March 2015, Tim wrote: > I have a Linux based thin terminal which uses a 1gb Compact Flash card as > a hard disk. I want to

[Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-09 Thread Tim
I have a Linux based thin terminal which uses a 1gb Compact Flash card as a hard disk. I want to look at the software on the compact flash card but the file type is not recognised Model: Generic USB CF Reader (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 1021MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table