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Subject: Re: how to identify filesystem type
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"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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