[olug] How to tell the FS type of a partition?

[David Walker]

Possibly.

Just type mount.  It lists all currently mounted partitions with their FS type

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 02:06 pm, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> Would fstab be a reliable source of information?
>
> thanks
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:phil at brutsche.us]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:57 PM
> > To: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: Re: [olug] How to tell the FS type of a partition?
> >
> > Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> > > How do you find out what File system a partition is
> >
> > formatted as? i.e.
> >
> > > ext2 or ext3?
> >
> > Just about the only way to reliably find out is to try to
> > mount it.  All
> > Linux partitions are of type 0x82 or 0x83 :(
> >
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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