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aussieevil

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Registered: 2014-06-19

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Finding Windows Partition from ISO

I'm making an Arch-based recovery USB stick, and I'm having some problems with making a shell script to automatically detect and mount the Windows partition (where the Windows\ folder is). Is there some way to do this?

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Finding Windows Partition from ISO

Mod note:  Not a kernel and Hardware issue, moving to "Installation".

I am not sure what you are trying to do, but give os-prober a try.

teateawhy

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Re: Finding Windows Partition from ISO

Mount the partition and check if there is a Windows folder.
To narrow it down before that you can look for file system type ntfs, parttype, partlabel, etc. in lsblk.
This is the result i get for windows partitions.

lsblk -o FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTTYPE,PARTLABEL,PARTFLAGS
FSTYPE LABEL PARTTYPE                             PARTLABEL            PARTFLAGS
ntfs         ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Basic data partition

I don't think this is a question that fits here, but I'm not a mod.

Last edited by teateawhy (2016-12-07 22:56:22)

Dokter Bibber

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Registered: 2016-09-19

Posts: 65

Re: Finding Windows Partition from ISO

Has this been resolved?
Or are you still looking for a resolution?