03-31-2006
formatted linux partiiton from windows.. please help
in between work somehow i deleted the linux partition from windows. now i am booting up in the grub mode. and it doesnt even accept the cd drive also that too in a notebook. i went to bios and changed my order of booting to cd->rom and then hdd.. but it directly goes to the grub command line when i boot it up.. i am really new to this.. can anyone help me in thei problem. i really want to recover all the files of windows .. please.. thank you very much for helping me.
Last edited by rejoy_stud; 03-31-2006 at 02:00 PM..
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findfs
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NAME
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
SYNOPSIS
findfs NAME=value
DESCRIPTION
findfs will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
are:
LABEL=<label>
Specifies filesystem label.
UUID=<uuid>
Specifies filesystem UUID.
PARTUUID=<uuid>
Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.
PARTLABEL=<label>
Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition
tables.
If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.
The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by
lsblk --fs
partx --show <disk>
blkid
EXIT STATUS
0 success
1 label or uuid cannot be found
2 usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
AUTHOR
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
enables libblkid debug output.
SEE ALSO
blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
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