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

[Brian Roberson]

fdisk -l /dev/devicename


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Brutsche" <phil at brutsche.us>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:57 PM
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 :(
> 
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> Phil
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