Re: how to identify filesystem type

["Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com>]

hi,

it doesn't provide the information seeked....i am enclosing the output
below...
# file /mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img

/mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img: data

# dd if=/dev/hdc1 bs=1k count=5 | file -

standard input: data

5+0 records in

4+0 records out

# file -s /dev/hdc{,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

/dev/hdc: x86 boot sector

/dev/hdc1: data

/dev/hdc2: x86 boot sector, extended partition table

/dev/hdc3: empty

/dev/hdc4: empty

/dev/hdc5: data

/dev/hdc6: data

/dev/hdc7: data

/dev/hdc8: Linux/i386 swap file version 1 (4K pages) size 63999 pages

/dev/hdc9: data

/dev/hdc10: empty

kindly suggest more about it...

thanks, Pankaj



----- Original Message -----
From: "ippi" <heynumbertwo@yahoo.com>
To: "Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com>; <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type


>
> --- Pankaj Agarwal <pankaj@pnpexports.com> wrote:
>
> > Kindly let me know how to
> > identify the filesystem in an image file or block
> > device.
> >
>
> Hi Pankaj,
>
> if you've got an image file called somefs.img you
> should be able to do:
>
>     file somefs.img
>
> If you've got a block device - say /dev/hda1 - then
> you'll need to do the following (probably as root).
> Be careful to type this command correctly or you
> could be in a world of pain
>
>     dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1k count=5 | file -
>
> A
> DO NOT USE dd WITH ANYTHING UNDER /dev WHILE RUNNING
> AS ROOT UNLESS YOU REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO.
>
>
>
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