On 12/10/2009 03:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I bought a new gadget, a "USB2 Universal Drive Adapter" which does > essentially what an external drive box does but it is not limited to > SATA drives, > > On the F-12 computer it shows up in lsusb and I can see a drive at > /dev/sdc with fdisk [sdc1] and it shows up as Linux and LVM. > > Is there a way to make it list the contents of the drive? > > I tried mounting it with "mount /dev/sdc1 -t ext3 /mnt/hdtest" which > I created for the purpose but that doesn't satisfy it. It produces a > stock error message "wrong fs type, bad option, etc." > > I've only tried that one old IDE drive so far. Any suggestions > appreciated. > > Bob You can use file to inspect the contents of the device: # file -s /dev/sdc1 E.g.: # file -s /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) # file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID " mkdosfs", sectors/cluster 4, root entries 512, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 125, heads 3, sectors 127848 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0x4b21069a, label: " ", FAT (16 bit) The '-s' is needed to tell file to look at the device content and not just report that this is a block device node. The blkid command (part of util-linux) will also give useful information on what devices contain: # blkid /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: UUID="4B21-069A" TYPE="msdos" Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
