Re: 2 Terabyte install

[Clifford Beshers <clifford.beshers@lindows.com>]

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Argh.  It never fails.  I found 'blkid' in package libblkid1 immediately 
after I sent this.  Bad packaging by Debian.

Anyway, it works as advertised.  Thanks.

Clifford Beshers wrote:

>
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
>>>   * Is there a tool to determine the type of file system on a
>>>     partition without mounting it?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Lots of them.  "file -s /dev/foo" or if you have a newer e2fsprogs (1.33
>>and newer I think) you can use "blkid [dev ...]" to tell you a bunch of
>>things about each device (LABEL, UUID, TYPE).
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Very interesting.  Unfotunately, my results don't match yours.
>
> First, I had tried 'file' and found that it didn't work.  I tried it 
> again and found that it still didn't work.
>
>     root@notsomarlin:~# losetup /dev/loop/0 /tmp/foo
>     root@notsomarlin:~# mke2fs /dev/loop/0
>     ...
>     root@notsomarlin:~# file /tmp/foo
>     /tmp/foo: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data
>     root@notsomarlin:~# mkreiserfs /dev/loop/0
>     ...
>     ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/loop/0.
>     root@notsomarlin:~# file /tmp/foo
>     /tmp/foo: data
>
> Do you get other results?  If not, it would seem that Debian's version 
> of 'file' is broken, yet I checked the source code and there are magic 
> numbers for reiserfs included.
>
> Also, I check e2fsprogs and it is at version 1.35 in Debian unstable, 
> but no tool called 'blkid' is included.
>
> So I'm still searching for reliable methods to do this.


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