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Want to write a script that can do the following:
If you have a HDD image file, is there a Linux command/way that can tell you if its partition table ...
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How to tell if hard drive image is MBR, GPT, LVM, contains GRUB?
Want to write a script that can do the following:
If you have a HDD image file, is there a Linux command/way that can tell you if its partition table is MBR, GPT, or LVM?
Similarly, is there a way to tell whether the image file contains a GRUB bootloader or not?
Thank you!
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The first sector (512 bytes) of a disc (or image in this case) contains the MBR and partition. You can extract and analyze this data as necessary to answer your question(s).
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