A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:27AM +0530, Sabarinathan wrote: > You are all tell about the mounted partition only, but my question is > how to get the mounted and unmounted partition with file system type > like fdisk output using /proc Like I explained before, you can NOT get information about filesystem type from an unmounted filesystem. The kernel doesn't even *care* what's on that partition. It's a userland task to figure out what's on it and to tell the kernel what to do with it. > For example : > > Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 2295 18434556 83 Linux The partition Id in the partition table has no relation with the contents of the partition. Just try it: change the type of /dev/hdb1 to 01 (DOS 12-bit FAT) and you'll see that you can still mount it. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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