UTek (V) filesystems and boot blocks

[Dan Wright]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:28 pm, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > Linux can handle about a dozen different partition maps, and quite a few
> > file systems.  You might be best to use dd to take an image off the hard
> > disk and then try and mount the image.
>
> Worth a try I suppose; I have a feeling that Linux doesn't support that
> many different partition formats though - dos/linux, sun/bsd, sgi, and
> that's about it I think. It *might* use the sun/bsd format I suppose,
> but seems more likely that it's something oddball.

You might want to check -- the available partition types list from the kernel 
on my laptop (linux 2.6.8.1) is:

  │ │  [*] Advanced partition selection                                   │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Acorn partition support (NEW)                                │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Alpha OSF partition support (NEW)                            │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Amiga partition table support (NEW)                          │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Atari partition table support (NEW)                          │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Macintosh partition map support (NEW)                        │ │
  │ │  [ ]   PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support (NEW)               │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support (NEW)    │ │
  │ │  [ ]   SGI partition support (NEW)                                  │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Ultrix partition table support (NEW)                         │ │
  │ │  [ ]   Sun partition tables support (NEW)                           │ │
  │ │  [ ]   EFI GUID Partition support (NEW)               

(from the screen in "make menuconfig")

I wouldn't be suprised if there are patches out there for more partition 
types, too.

-- 

Dan Wright
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