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

Mike Hostetler thehaas at binary.net
Tue Jul 16 19:11:59 UTC 2002


On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:06:33PM -0500, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> Would fstab be a reliable source of information?

The only problem with that would be if the partition wasn't in there.  I
mount floppies once in a while, but it isn't in my fstab (however, I have
never created a journalling filesystem on a floppy, so this example may
be mute).

my $0.02 on that . . 

-- mikeh


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