Jiri Baum: > > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is > > partitioned, please? > > > > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) > > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, > > with others /dev/sda directly.
ktb (kent): > This is a little out of my league but could you use cfdisk? I don't see how... cfdisk and fdisk are interactive programs for manipulating partitions; if the disk is not partitioned, they read rubbish from the disk and let me manipulate that. If I accidentally save it, I've probably just destroyed the filesystem. (Maybe I wasn't clear in my original mail; my problem isn't a blank disk that I want to partition; my problem is a box of disks full of data, some of which are partitioned like hard disks, others formatted in one piece like floppies.) Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
