A quick tip, you can find about all partition type in your system by typing “fdisk -l” (as root). For example :

With this command fdisk lists partition type in all disks without you having to mount them.

What can you do with these information?
You can use it as a clue to mount your partition. fdisk also list the device name of the corresponding partition thus making your job easier to identify which device contains the data that you want to find.

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