On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] how do determine last file system on disk? > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:04 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > >> On 06/26/11 12:58 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> >>> All the drives are old 160GB SATA. There's 1x 160GB IDE as well. >>> >>> They were used in the office on various machines, so no hardware RAID, >>> but they definitely had some data on them. >>> I did get some drives with software RAID on and could recover the >>> data, but there's 2 drives which I can't figure out what filesystem >>> they have / had on them. >>> We use Linux & FreeBSD, so I suspect they had ZFS / UFS on them, but >>> couldn't mount them on a FreeBSD server with ZFS or UFS either. >>> >> >> is it possible you used the raw disk without partitioning? so in >> linux, that would be /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 or whatever. >> >> >> on a random server with normally partitioned disks... >> >> # file -s /dev/sda >> /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, >> startsector 63, 256977 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, >> startsector 257040, 4192965 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, >> startsector 4450005, 138914055 sectors, code offset 0x48 >> >> # file -s /dev/sda1 >> /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) >> >> >> >> >> -- >> john r pierce N 37, W 122 >> santa cruz ca mid-left coast >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > It's hard to say. They've been in the cupboard for along time and I don't > know which tech did what on them, which is why I'm trying to see which file > systems were on them last, so that I can see what data is on them. What about using a spare low spec machine with removable EIDE and SATA drive caddies? This would come in handy for times like these, or if you needed to wipe a drive completely befroe disposal? HTH Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------