From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA65894 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:29:46 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA54402 for linux-list; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:28:39 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA46053 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:28:37 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-47.netscape.com [205.217.237.47]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id OAA00816 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:28:36 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from tintin.mcom.com (tintin.mcom.com [205.217.233.42]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22590 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.67]) by tintin.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.0) with ESMTP id F5093N00.5EU; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:28:35 -0800 Message-ID: <368FEF50.22B8170@netscape.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:29:36 -0500 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Just Another Snake Cult X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.131 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Olson CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: EFS volume descriptors References: <199901032222.OAA25109@anchor.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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 -- 108908.71 93516.45