On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:59 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Tim wrote: > > ... > > Just typing in mount will show you what's mounted. You can compare that > > against fdisk -l to find out more about what's missing. > > As long as there are no partitions that have been formatted but not mounted. > > AFAIK the only way to see if a partition is formatted is to try and > mount it. Mount can try to determine how the partition is formatted, so > if it gives up you can be pretty sure that partition is not formatted, > at least for any filesystems the kernel has support for. > > I actually keep a disk/partition inventory, by hand, in a spreadsheet, > because I've never found a good admin tool that can print a nice summary > of the info I need to know (e.g., the OP's question) when installation > time rolls around. It doesn't change often so it's not a huge chore, but > if anyone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it. > > <Joe > Or you can use parted to whether there is a filesystem on it. eg. if you issue parted /dev/sdx and then print, you are able to see all the partitions on sdx, including flags, filesystems a.s.o. HTH, Calin ================================================= Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
