Is this valid JFS partition?
- by Coolmax
This is my first question on StackExchange. My teacher gave my his laptop (with Fedora 16 on it) and compact flash card with data. He want to have access to files on card, but he couldn't get access to it. The problem is Linux don't know what type of partion is. I suppose there is JFS:
root@debian:~# dmesg |grep sdc
[ 9066.908223] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] 3940272 512-byte logical blocks: (2.01 GB/1.87 GiB)
[ 9066.962307] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 9066.962310] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 9066.962312] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9067.028420] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9067.028637] sdc: unknown partition table
[ 9067.097065] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9067.097281] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
and some of data:
root@debian:~# hexdump -Cn 65536 /dev/sdc
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00008000 4a 46 53 31 01 00 00 00 48 63 0e 00 00 00 00 00 |JFS1....Hc......|
00008010 00 10 00 00 0c 00 03 00 00 02 00 00 09 00 00 00 |................|
00008020 00 20 00 00 00 09 20 10 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |. .... .........|
00008030 04 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 |....&.......$...|
00008040 41 03 00 00 16 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 a0 cc 01 00 |A...............|
00008050 37 00 00 00 69 cc 01 00 b6 d8 ac 4b 00 00 00 00 |7...i......K....|
00008060 32 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |2...............|
00008070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00008080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 15 e5 5f e3 c4 45 fa |..........._..E.|
00008090 9d 6a 5c b5 4f da 62 1a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.j\.O.b.........|
000080a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c3 c9 01 00 ed 81 00 00 |................|
000080b0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000080c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
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0000f000 4a 46 53 31 01 00 00 00 48 63 0e 00 00 00 00 00 |JFS1....Hc......|
0000f010 00 10 00 00 0c 00 03 00 00 02 00 00 09 00 00 00 |................|
0000f020 00 20 00 00 00 09 20 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |. .... .........|
0000f030 04 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 |....&.......$...|
0000f040 41 03 00 00 16 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 a0 cc 01 00 |A...............|
0000f050 37 00 00 00 69 cc 01 00 b6 d8 ac 4b 00 00 00 00 |7...i......K....|
0000f060 32 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |2...............|
0000f070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
0000f080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 15 e5 5f e3 c4 45 fa |..........._..E.|
0000f090 9d 6a 5c b5 4f da 62 1a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.j\.O.b.........|
0000f0a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c3 c9 01 00 ed 81 00 00 |................|
0000f0b0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
0000f0c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00010000
I'm total newbie to filesystems. I googled and found that JFS superblock may starts on 0x8000 offset. But what next? How to mount this card? If there would be normal partition table I would expect 55 AA on 510th and 511th byte, but first 8000 bytes are clear. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And sorry for my bad english :) Kind regards.