Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Pankaj Agarwal" <> | Subject | Re: how to identify filesystem type | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:33:22 +0530 |
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Hi Andreas,
this is the output when you have a mounted block device.....you can only mount when you know the filesystem ....thats wat i wanna know...hoe to identify filesytems...on ablockdevice.
thanks anyways, looking forward for more information on this
Pankaj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de> To: "Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type
"Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com> writes:
> I need your help, in understanding filesystems. Kindly let me know how to > identify the filesystem in an image file or block device.
Use file:
# file -s /dev/hda3 /dev/hda3: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks 9500285 r5 hash
Andreas.
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