kalinix wrote:
... if you issue parted /dev/sdx and then print, you are able to
see all the partitions on sdx, including flags, filesystems a.s.o.
Thanks.
Hadn't tried that, but it doesn't look like any more information than I
can get from fdisk. E.g. parted's 'print' shows the partition type, but
doesn't actually test whether there's a formatted file system there
unless you're doing a file system operation on it. And it feels safer to
me to just try and mount a partition temporarily, and read-only if you
really want to be careful.
<Joe
