How to mount read an 88 Linux Plaintext partition

Corsari · 06-08-2011, 11:29 AM

Hi to all the forum.

I've one big partition that fdisk reports to be this type
88 Linux Plaintext partition
here you a full list of partitions type from fdisk help.

I need to mount it and read it, but mount command seems to doesn't recognize 88 type.

Maybe something could be done with LVM?
But I had never play with LVM.

To be true I suspect that originally this was handled by some virtual partition or LVM.

Thank you for any suggestion

Cor

MS3FGX · 06-08-2011, 02:23 PM

The partition table doesn't actually indicate what filesystem is on the partition, it is just for reference. The filesystem could be any one of the common Linux filesystems, or indeed something completely different.

"mount" has pretty good autodetection for all of the filesystems your kernel currently supports, have you tried letting "mount" automatically detect the filesystem by simply telling it to mount the partition without giving it a filesystem type.