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

Jeff Hinrichs JeffH at delasco.com
Tue Jul 16 19:15:35 UTC 2002


Looks like we have a winner with fstab and/or mount

thanks everyone!

-Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Walker [mailto:linux_user at grax.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] How to tell the FS type of a partition?
> 
> 
> 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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