Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: >> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Fdisk -l > > nooooo!!! > >> Even easier: >> waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) > > are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this > will just show what you've "told" the partition it is. > hmm, hadn't considered you'd lie to fdisk. You are correct, i'm sure, though lying to fdisk might have some consequences you don't like. I guess I'm not sure why you don't just mount the puppy.
> What happens if you mark a partition with fdisk as type, say, fat32, and > then run mkfs.ext3 over it? fdisk -l will show fat32, file will > do .....? > > There are other tools to help you, like disktype: > * sys-block/disktype > Latest version available: 8 > Latest version installed: 8 > Size of downloaded files: 39 kB > Homepage: http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ > Description: Detect the content format of a disk or disk image. > License: BSD > > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> > > Bumper sticker: > All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest > British manufacture. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
