Re: Hard disk file system identification

El jue, 30 de 09 de 2004 a las 13:42, Nick Puetz escribiÃ:
> I have received an internal hard drive that I need to image and perform some 
> analysis on; however, I don't know the file system type on the disk, there 
> for, I can not correctly mount it to the RedHat 9 machine I used to do my 
> image creation and analysis.  Is there any way that I can identify what file 
> system type is on a hard disk without jeopardizing the integrity of the hard 
> disk?  Thanks for the help.
>
> Nick

The most obvious way of doing this is to load all the modules
for filesystems with modprobe and then try to mount the
hard disk with each one of the filesystems using the -t option
of mount. This doesn't touch the filesystem so is secure to
try it.

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