On 12/31/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> ... 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.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Hadn't tried that, but it doesn't look like any more information than I
>> > can get from fdisk. E.g. parted's 'print' shows the partition type, but
>> > doesn't actually test whether there's a formatted file system there
>> > unless you're doing a file system operation on it. And it feels
>> safer to
>> > me to just try and mount a partition temporarily, and read-only if you
>> > really want to be careful.
>>
>> I guess if you see the partition type with fdisk and then try to mount
>> the partition or activate the partition, it will tell you if it is
>> formatted with the filesystem that it claims to be.
>>
>> Other than that, I never thought to try any out of the ordinary program
>> to figure out if it is setup with a filesystem. I did that for DOS, so I
>> guess other filesystem presence would work the same.
>
> Thanks to all. The disk where I suspect that there is some unformatted
> space is the following ('fdisk output'):
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hde2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM
If you are trying to diagnose the LVM partition, there is a visual tool
for setting up LVM partitions and it will also show visually what the
partitions are made up as.
Go to System/Administration/Logical Volume Management on the GNOME menus
and try to launch the program.
The first partition is regular partition and should be mountable with
making a directory for the volume and mounting it with
mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/MyCreatedDirectory
whatever that would be.
Thanks, Jim. hde1 mounts correctly. The visual LVM tool indicates no
filesystem in hde2.
Paul
