On Saturday 16 October 2004 11:12 am, Eben King wrote:
> OK, how does one identify the filesystem on a device? "file" says:
>
> [root@pc root]# file - < /dev/sda
> standard input: x86 boot sector
>
> (/dev/sda is one of these, 0.5 GB: http://kasercorp.com/usbjumbo.cfm )
>
> I successfully mounted it as ext2, but just because I happened to *know*
> that was what it was. In general, what should I do? How about an offset
> that'll skip ahead straight to the filesystem?
>
> offset in 1K blocks --vvv
> dd if=/dev/sda bs=1024 skip=xxx | file -
Well my first answer was use fdisk. It will list the filesystems. But that's
not entirely true. It only recognizes types of partitions.
You can however recognize all supported filesystems using 'fsck -N /dev/hda1'.
--Steve Szmidt
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