Partition Identification

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The -Q option is available on Windows, LINUX, OS X, IRIX, and Solaris platforms. This flag will instruct the software to dump and identify the primary partition table. This function is not infallible as there are several Windows-family volume managers that extend the partition information and allow you to add nearly unlimited permutations. Our software does not attempt to decode everything. It can, however, decode an extensive list of partition types which includes some obsolete operating systems.

All operating systems

Reports 4 primary partitions and returns one of the following strings:

•	Primary DOS 12-bit FAT

•	xenix / file system

•	xenix /usr file system

•	Primary DOS 16-bit FAT

•	Extended DOS

•	Primary big DOS >32Mb

•	OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced Unix

•	AIX boot partition

•	AIX file system partition or Coherent

•	OS/2 Boot Manager or Coherent

•	DOS or Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT

•	DOS or Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT, LBA

•	Primary big DOS >32Mb LBA

•	Extended DOS, LBA

•

OPUS

•	DOS 12-bit FAT Hidden Partition

•	Compaq Configuration Partition

•	DOS 16-bit FAT <32Mb Hidden

•	DOS 16-bit FAT >=32Mb Hidden

•	OS/2 HPFS Hidden

•	AST Windows swapfile

•	Willowtech Photon coS

•	WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT Hidden

•	WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT, LBA, Hidden

•	FAT95 Hidden

•	Willowsoft Overture Filesystem

•	FSo2 Oxygen Filesystem

•	Extended Oxygen Filesystem

•	NEC DOS 3.x

•	THEOS ver 3.2 2Gb Partition

•	THEOS ver 4 Spanned Partition

•	THEOS ver 4 4Gb Partition

•	THEOS ver 4 Extended Partition

•	PartitionMagic Recovery Partition

•

VENIX 286

•	PPC PReP Boot

•	SFS (Secure File System)

•

QNX 4.x

•	QNX 4.x 2nd part

•	QNX 4.x 3rd part

•	OnTrack DM

•	OnTrack DM6 Aux (51)

•	CP/M or Microport SysV/AT

•	OnTrack DM6 Aux (53)

•	OnTrack DM6

•	EZ-Drive"); break;

•	GoldenBow VFeature

•	Priam EDisk

•

Speedstor

•	ISC Unix, System V/386, GNU HURD or Mach

•	Novell Netware 2.xx

•	Novell Netware 3.xx

•	DiskSecure Multi-Boot

•

IBM PCIX

•	Minix 1.1 -> 1.4a

•	Minix 1.4b -> 1.5.10

•	Linux Swap

•	Linux Filesystem

•	OS/2 type 04 hidden DOS C:

•	Linux extended

•	NTFS volume set (type 86)

•	NTFS volume set (type 87)

•

Linux LVM

•	Amoeba Filesystem

•	Amoeba Bad Block Table

•

BSD/OS

•	IBM Thinkpad

•	FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD

•

OpenBSD

•

NeXTSTEP

•	ESDI BSD/386 Filesystem

•	BSDI BSD/386 swap

•	Boot Wizard

•	DR-DOS 6.0 secured 12-bit FAT partition

•	DR-DOS 6.0 secured 16-bit FAT partition

•	DR-DOS 6.0 secured Huge partition

•

Syrinx

•	Non FS data

•	Concurrent CPM, C.DOS, CTOS

•	Dell Utility

•

BootIt

•	DOS Access

•

DOS R/O

•

BeOS

•

EFI GPT

•

EFI FAT

•	DOS 3.3+ Secondary

•

SpeedStor

•	Linux RAID Auto

•

LANstep

•	Xenix Bad Block Table

•	Unknown-Type=XXh (This is the catch-all for other types we can't decode)

In addition to the partition type, the software will append [BOOTABLE] if this is the bootable primary partition. All partitions will also report the total block count and MB in the partition.

Apple OS X Specific

Identifies if partition(s) are Allocated, In-Use, Bootable, Readable, Writable

Sample Output (Windows)

D:\msdevstd\projects\smartmonux125\Debug>smartmon-ux -Q

Discovered HITACHI_DK23EA-60 S/N "JP7348" on \\.\PhysicalDrive0 (SMART Enabled)

Partition table dump below:

0000: 33 C0 8E D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C 3.....|.P.P....|

0010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BD BE 07 B1 04 ...PW...........

0020: 38 6E 00 7C 09 75 13 83 C5 10 E2 F4 CD 18 8B F5 8n.|.u..........

0030: 83 C6 10 49 74 19 38 2C 74 F6 A0 B5 07 B4 07 8B ...It.8,t.......

0040: F0 AC 3C 00 74 FC BB 07 00 B4 0E CD 10 EB F2 88 ..<.t...........

0050: 4E 10 E8 46 00 73 2A FE 46 10 80 7E 04 0B 74 0B N..F.s*.F..~..t.

0060: 80 7E 04 0C 74 05 A0 B6 07 75 D2 80 46 02 06 83 .~..t....u..F...

0070: 46 08 06 83 56 0A 00 E8 21 00 73 05 A0 B6 07 EB F...V...!.s.....

0080: BC 81 3E FE 7D 55 AA 74 0B 80 7E 10 00 74 C8 A0 ..>.}U.t..~..t..

0090: B7 07 EB A9 8B FC 1E 57 8B F5 CB BF 05 00 8A 56 .......W.......V

00a0: 00 B4 08 CD 13 72 23 8A C1 24 3F 98 8A DE 8A FC .....r#..$?.....

00b0: 43 F7 E3 8B D1 86 D6 B1 06 D2 EE 42 F7 E2 39 56 C..........B..9V

00c0: 0A 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1C B8 01 02 BB 00 7C .w#r.9F.s......|

00d0: 8B 4E 02 8B 56 00 CD 13 73 51 4F 74 4E 32 E4 8A .N..V...sQOtN2..

00e0: 56 00 CD 13 EB E4 8A 56 00 60 BB AA 55 B4 41 CD V......V.`..U.A.

00f0: 13 72 36 81 FB 55 AA 75 30 F6 C1 01 74 2B 61 60 .r6..U.u0...t+a`

0100: 6A 00 6A 00 FF 76 0A FF 76 08 6A 00 68 00 7C 6A j.j..v..v.j.h.|j

0110: 01 6A 10 B4 42 8B F4 CD 13 61 61 73 0E 4F 74 0B .j..B....aas.Ot.

0120: 32 E4 8A 56 00 CD 13 EB D6 61 F9 C3 49 6E 76 61 2..V.....a..Inva

0130: 6C 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E 20 74 61 lid partition ta

0140: 62 6C 65 00 45 72 72 6F 72 20 6C 6F 61 64 69 6E ble.Error loadin

0150: 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 g operating syst

0160: 65 6D 00 4D 69 73 73 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 em.Missing opera

0170: 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6D 00 00 00 00 00 ting system.....

0180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01b0: 00 00 00 00 00 2C 44 63 3C E5 3C E5 00 00 80 01 .....,Dc<.<.....

01c0: 01 00 07 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 EC ED E1 04 00 FE ......?.........

01d0: FF FF 0C FE FF FF 2B EE E1 04 7E 04 7D 00 00 00 ......+...~.}...

01e0: C1 FF 0F FE FF FF BE 4E EC 06 C2 2D 10 00 00 00 .......N...-....

01f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA ..............U.

Partition #0: Type=OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced Unix [BOOTABLE], Starting block=63, Total blocks=81915372, MB=39997

Partition #1: Type=DOS or Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT, LBA, Starting block=81915435, Total blocks=8193150, MB=4000

Partition #2: Type=Extended DOS, LBA, Starting block=116149950, Total blocks=1060290, MB=517

Partition #3: Type=Unknown

Discovered HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8081N S/N " " on \\.\CDROM0 (CD/DVD) [Bus/Port/ID.LUN=0/1/0.0]

Program Ended.

Sample Output (IRIX)

# /etc/smartmon-ux -Q /hw/sc0d1l0

Discovered SEAGATE ST39175LC S/N "3AL07K7P" on /hw/scsi/sc0d1l0 (SMART enabled)(8678 MB)

Partition table dump below:

0000: 0B E5 A9 41 00 00 00 01 2F 75 6E 69 78 00 00 00 ...A..../unix...

0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2D AD 00 00 ............-...

0020: 00 05 02 00 00 00 01 30 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 .......0.......@

0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0040: 00 00 00 00 01 0F 33 D4 73 67 69 6C 61 62 65 6C ......3.sgilabel

0050: 00 00 00 02 00 00 02 00 69 64 65 00 00 00 00 00 ........ide.....

0060: 00 00 02 6D 00 04 EE 00 73 61 73 68 00 00 00 00 ...m....sash....

0070: 00 00 04 E4 00 04 EE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 61 73 68 00 00 00 00 .........ash....

0100: FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 61 73 68 00 00 00 00 .........ash....

0120: FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 64 65 00 00 00 00 00 .........de.....

0130: FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 01 0B 23 D4 00 04 10 00 ..........#.....

0140: 00 00 00 0A 00 04 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 03 ................

0150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

0190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01b0: 01 0F 33 D4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 ..3.............

01c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

01f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 67 00 50 F6 00 00 00 00 ........g.P.....

Decoded Partition Header Information----------------------------------------------------

Num Name Start nBlocks Type Description

0 root 266240 17507284 SGI XFS Root partition, used for root filesystem

1 swap 4096 262144 Raw data Virtual memory space

8 volhdr 0 4096 Volume header Volume header

10 volume 0 17773524 Entire volume The entire disk including volume header

Decoded Volume Header Information -------------------

Num Label StartBlock Size(Bytes) Size(KB)

0 sgilabel 2 512 0

1 ide 621 323072 315

2 sash 1252 323072 315

3 - 0 0 0

4 - 0 0 0

5 - 0 0 0

6 - 0 0 0

7 - 0 0 0

8 - 0 0 0

9 - 0 0 0

10 - 0 0 0

11 - 4294967295 0 0

12 - 0 0 0

13 - 4294967295 0 0

14 - 4294967295 0 0