From: Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com>
To: Dave Olson <olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: EFS volume descriptors
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:29:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <368FEF50.22B8170@netscape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199901032222.OAA25109@anchor.engr.sgi.com
Dave Olson wrote:
> Look at block 0 on the disk ("absolute" block 0), and use the magic
> number to see if it's an sgi volume. If it is, for each partition
> other than 8 and 10, check to see if block 1 is an EFS superblock.
> That's the only possible way. For almost all (but not all!) efs
> CD's, there will only be partition 7,8,10, so you can just check
> partition 7, if you want to be lazy.
Excellent! Thanks.
Mike
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prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-03 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-02 18:35 EFS volume descriptors Mike Shaver
1999-01-02 18:50 ` David S. Miller
1999-01-02 19:08 ` Mike Shaver
1999-01-03 22:16 ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:16 ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:20 ` Mike Shaver
1999-01-03 22:22 ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:22 ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:29 ` Mike Shaver [this message]
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