Jiri Baum wrote: > > 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.) >
No you were clear:) I've used cfdisk to look at my first hard drive because I was curious as to how it was partitioned not because I wanted to manipulate the partitions. Your situation is a little different than what I used it for, just thought it might work for you. Sorry it didn't. kent
