Re: What is SFS ?

Dave Stratford wrote:

In article <slrne46094.rir.aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
AZ Nomad <aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:48:17 +0100, Dave Stratford
<daves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to
identify, and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one.
When I do an dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone
twll me what this means please.
Can anybody tell you how to go to google and type "SFS"? Secure File
System. Took less than 3 seconds to find that.

Well actually I (via google) had also found 'Speech Filing System' and
'Self-certifying File System' as well as 'Secure File System' all three of
which I had already dismissed as incorrect given that the HDD came out of
an RH8 machine. I'm just trying to mount the damn thing to see if there is
anything I need to offload before I reformat and dump.

I think I'll just reformat and dump anyway.

On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb
hard drive?
Pull the platters out and make a wind chime.
One of the better suggestions!

Dave


My windows stripe set shows up as SFS, id 42, that would be Secure File
System. Incorrect, and not much use for you either, I suppose.

Disk /dev/sde: 9100 MB, 9100032000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 1106 8883913+ 42 SFS

Michel
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