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RE: [PLUG] Unknown FS and mounting a Floppy
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another choice, try tar -tvf /dev/floppy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Dan Roberts
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Subject: [PLUG] Unknown FS and mounting a Floppy
>
>
> Hello All
>
> I was given several floppys to see if they contained any data
> The only clue that I had was that the disk was labled "UNIX"
>
> So in my linux workstation I tried to mount the floppys via bunch of
> different ways..All with no luck..bascially whatever I tried
> I was told
> that the superblock could not be located.
> Next I tried fsck and that failed
> Next I tried fdisk and I was told that no Device contains neither a
> valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
>
>
> Then out of deperation I performed a dd on the disks and it looks like
> there exists data as the of shows at least some text output..
>
> My question is>
> Is there any other type of operation that I could do to figure out the
> FS that is on this diskette?
> (For the Windows diehards..I tried windows and it wanted to format my
> disk :=)heheheh)
>
> Thanks for any advice!
> Dan
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