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Old 09-10-2004, 06:52 AM   #1
mabs
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Help, Linux Parition damaged??


A hard disk of a friend has Linux and say me that is bad. He don't know what file system has Linux.
I tried to mount the Linux and i can not. The device is /dev/hdc1. I try with ext2, ext3 and reiserfs.
With fsck -t file_system... i tried too anda nothing.
What can i do??? How can i know what file system is??
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Old 09-10-2004, 09:47 AM   #2
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Try mounting drive without specifying filesystem type e.g

Code:
mount -t auto /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc
(replacing /mnt/hdc with an existing empty directory)

running mount command should output a list of mounted volumes and filesystem types.
 
Old 09-14-2004, 09:53 AM   #3
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Not run, mount not know the filesystem.
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