Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 16:11, Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guy,

This might be a nubie question, but last night I installed a new sata card and 1TB drive. Well, I thought I had made the 1TB drive ext3, but when I got to mount it, I get wrong super block error. Now, if I tell that to mount it with auto it does. So how can I tell what format is the partions, because it not ext3.

Use "file -s" command on the partition's /dev entry. You usually must be root to do this.

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On Wed, August 6, 2008 01:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Use "file -s" command on the partition's /dev entry. You usually must be root to do this.

On my system:

# file -s /dev/sd[a-z][0-9]

Wow, that's a real nice solution. I'm not near such a box now, but would this also work for RAID (md) and LVM devices? -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, August 6, 2008 18:04, Rodney Baker wrote:

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:12:00 Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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On Wed, August 6, 2008 01:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Use "file -s" command on the partition's /dev entry. You usually must be root to do this.

On my system:

# file -s /dev/sd[a-z][0-9]

Wow, that's a real nice solution. I'm not near such a box now, but would this also work for RAID (md) and LVM devices?

-- Amedee

With a slight change to the regex (or just specifying the /dev/md<n> device directly) it does work correctly for Raid 1 partitions (showing them as the underlying format, in my case ext3) but not for linear raid partitions. It shows the first part as expected, but the second part is shown as an "MPEG sequence" and the third simply as "data".

I don't have any LVM partitions so I can't comment on that.

I have some LVM partitions on top of RAID5. But I cannot reach that box at the moment, I just switched from cable to DSL and I have not yet configured the new DSL modem/router to forward port 22. Perhaps tonight, if I don't forget it, I'll experiment a bit. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin wrote:

Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guy,

This might be a nubie question, but last night I installed a new sata card and 1TB drive. Well, I thought I had made the 1TB drive ext3, but when I got to mount it, I get wrong super block error. Now, if I tell that to mount it with auto it does. So how can I tell what format is the partions, because it not ext3.

Thanks.

what about typing "mount" in a konsole window?

Alright, don't be lazy, we'll clean it up a bit: mount | sed -e 's/^.*on\(.*\)$/\1/' -e '/^\w/d' | awk '{ printf "%-30s\t%s\t%s\n", $1,$2,$3}' / type ext3 /proc type proc /sys type sysfs /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs /dev type tmpfs /dev/pts type devpts /boot type ext3 /home type ext3 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Mike McMullin wrote:

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 21:31 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:

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David C. Rankin wrote:

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Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guy,

This might be a nubie question, but last night I installed a new sata card and 1TB drive. Well, I thought I had made the 1TB drive ext3, but when I got to mount it, I get wrong super block error. Now, if I tell that to mount it with auto it does. So how can I tell what format is the partions, because it not ext3.

Thanks.

what about typing "mount" in a konsole window?

Alright, don't be lazy, we'll clean it up a bit:

mount | sed -e 's/^.*on\(.*\)$/\1/' -e '/^\w/d' | awk '{ printf "%-30s\t%s\t%s\n", $1,$2,$3}'

/ type ext3 /proc type proc /sys type sysfs /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs /dev type tmpfs /dev/pts type devpts /boot type ext3 /home type ext3

IIRC,mount deals with partition that are mounted, or listed in fstab, but not ones that might be attached, unmounted and not listed in fstab?

Right you are, but "cat /proc/partitions lists the partitions but not the type. I think in the unmounted case, you are back to what Randall suggested. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org