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From: "Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com>
To: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:33:22 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c486c9$40d92e60$6d59023d@dreammachine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: je657fzchp.fsf@sykes.suse.de

Hi Andreas,

this is the output when you have a mounted block device.....you can only
mount when you know the filesystem ....thats wat i wanna know...hoe to
identify filesytems...on ablockdevice.

thanks anyways, looking forward for more information on this

Pankaj


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type


"Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@pnpexports.com> writes:

> I need your help, in understanding filesystems. Kindly let me know how to
> identify the filesystem in an image file or block device.

Use file:

# file -s /dev/hda3
/dev/hda3: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks
9500285 r5 hash

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19  9:07 how to identify filesystem type Pankaj Agarwal
2004-08-19  9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-19 14:03   ` Pankaj Agarwal [this message]
2004-08-20 15:36     ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-20 20:46     ` Andreas Dilger
2004-08-20 21:58       ` Andries Brouwer
2004-08-21  3:25         ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-21  8:51           ` Andries Brouwer

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