Re: [PLUG] Unknown FS and mounting a Floppy

["Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>]

Hi Dan:

* Dan Roberts <Daniel.G.Roberts@sanofi-aventis.com> [2005-10-17 11:20:03 -0400]:
> 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)

If dd works...

# dd if=/dev/floppy of=/tmp/blah

# file /tmp/blah

That just might tell you what's on there.  I'm sure it works on ISO9660
(cdrom) filesystem images; I'm guessing it works for others also.

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com

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