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RE: [PLUG] Unknown FS and mounting a Floppy
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Thanks for the replies!
Could you please give me an example of the cpio command that I could use
on a floppy that I can't mount and would like to read of to /tmp
dan
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 11:24 -0400, George Gallen wrote:
> 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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