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

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Ok, that gives me heads/sectors/cylinders.  How do I find out if it is
formatted as ext3 or ext2?
thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Roberson [mailto:roberson at olug.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:59 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] How to tell the FS type of a partition?
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> 
> fdisk -l /dev/devicename
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> ----- 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?
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> > 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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