Re: Partition Type

2023-09-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/25/23 03:47, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 12:30 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: On 9/24/23 01:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type > /dev/sdc1       1919950958 2464388050  544437093

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-25 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 12:30 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/24/23 01:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Is there a way to mount these partitions? > > > > Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors > > Disk model: Mass Storage > > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Sector size

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 15:44 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Perhaps someone created a partition table on the device, but then > wrote a FAT32 filesystem to the raw device, and the bits on the only > filesystem look close enough like filesystem entries to confuse > tools? If someone uses more

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 07:40 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > Partition types are rather meaningless. They are there and everyone > seems to set it, but when wrong it does not seem to matter. At best > it is information that is sometimes right. > > I have not seen that the partition t

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 07:24:11PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Subject: Re: Partition Type On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there a way to mount these partitions? No idea, because the output below doesn't tell me very much. What tool

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/24/23 10:24, Patrick Dupre wrote: Subject: Re: Partition Type On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Is there a way to mount these partitions? Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors Disk model: Mass Storage Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Sep 24, 2023, at 13:24, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> Actually /dev/sdc2 is mount ls /run/media/user > Sorry, this is wrong > /dev/sdc on /run/media/user/Data Logger type vfat >

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
not seen that the partition type has to have any relationship to what is actually on the partition. Ontrack was typically used to get around some windows size limit. What size is the disk? And odds are these are some variant of a windows fs. So do "mount /dev/sdc1 /somepointpoint&quo

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Subject: Re: Partition Type > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to mount these partitions? > > > > Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors > > Disk model: Mass Storage &

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/24/23 01:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: Is there a way to mount these partitions? Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors Disk model: Mass Storage Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Roger Heflin
unt ls /run/media/user > > It seems that sdc4 is bootable > The sizes seem bizarre Partition types are rather meaningless. They are there and everyone seems to set it, but when wrong it does not seem to matter. At best it is information that is sometimes right. I have not

Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Is there a way to mount these partitions? Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors Disk model: Mass Storage Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos

Re: Changing Partition Type

2016-07-06 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 06 July 2016, jd1008 sent: > Have a drive partitioned (MBR) to have 1 partition. > However, I had forgotten to change partition type to > LINUX. > Now that I have data on it (fstype ext3), I wonder if > it is worth it to change partition type to Linux? As Sa

Re: Changing Partition Type

2016-07-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/06/2016 07:59 PM, jd1008 wrote: Have a drive partitioned (MBR) to have 1 partition. However, I had forgotten to change partition type to LINUX. Now that I have data on it (fstype ext3), I wonder if it is worth it to change partition type to Linux? Current type is 7 (ntfs). Could changing

Changing Partition Type

2016-07-06 Thread jd1008
Have a drive partitioned (MBR) to have 1 partition. However, I had forgotten to change partition type to LINUX. Now that I have data on it (fstype ext3), I wonder if it is worth it to change partition type to Linux? Current type is 7 (ntfs). Could changing the type to Linux make the data

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/27 19:09, fred smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:02:07PM -0700, linux guy wrote: Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... FYI: A year or so ago I had a

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread jdow
(Look inline) On 2011/12/27 19:26, linux guy wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Sam Varshavchikmr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Yes, I'm sure it's fine now. Please clarify, what do you think is fine now ? The drive ? Or the laptop/drive controller ? Looks to me like some pages went bad,

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
selection After selecting an Intel/PC partition type, testdisk finds no partitions on the initial and the deeper scans.  Not a thing. If you had F16 installed, you might have had a GPT partition table instead. If that doesn't work, photorec is probably your last, best hope. -T.C. -- users mailing

Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
Last week the SSD in my laptop threw errors when I was doing a backup copy of it. Only 69 of 70 GB copied using Dolphin disk to disk with Auto Skip enabled when there were errors. I guess the good part is that 69 of 70 GB of data copied during the backup and the other good part is that I store

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
# fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xf7941c52. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linux guy writes: # fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xf7941c52. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... Is there any way to copy (and possibly recover) the raw data from the drive ? Possibly using dd or something ? I tried using

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
What are the chances that the drive controller in the laptop caused this problem ? I just tested the drive in the laptop BIOS and it says its fine. SMART and what it does for a surface scan. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:02:07PM -0700, linux guy wrote: Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... FYI: A year or so ago I had a USB HD with 200-300 gigs of irreplaceable

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 20:03 -0700, linux guy wrote: What are the chances that the drive controller in the laptop caused this problem ? I just tested the drive in the laptop BIOS and it says its fine. SMART and what it does for a surface scan. definitely possible - might be useful to see

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linux guy writes: What are the chances that the drive controller in the laptop caused this problem ? I just tested the drive in the laptop BIOS and it says its fine. SMART and what it does for a surface scan. Yes, I'm sure it's fine now. Looks to me like some pages went bad, and the drive

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: definitely possible - might be useful to see if you can connect it to a different computer with a different interface I've done that. Its now connected to a server that I'm using for my desktop machine via a USB

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:09 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: snip Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I just spent some time going through the files that did copy and I can't see anything critical missing. :HUGE, HUGE sigh of relief. If the situation were worse, I'd be on your

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Yes, I'm sure it's fine now. Please clarify, what do you think is fine now ? The drive ? Or the laptop/drive controller ? Looks to me like some pages went bad, and the drive mapped them out and replaced with some

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
Is there any chance that some of this was caused by hot plugging an SSD device into a hot plug SATA port ? Do SSDs support hot plugging ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?    What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?    I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... Try testdisk. It will attempt to identify and restore

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
] Return to disk selection After selecting an Intel/PC partition type, testdisk finds no partitions on the initial and the deeper scans. Not a thing. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo