From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ippi Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040819081300.95564.qmail@web50005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <005e01c485a0$69631820$5c59023d@dreammachine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <005e01c485a0$69631820$5c59023d@dreammachine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pankaj Agarwal , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org --- Pankaj Agarwal 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs