Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format?

[Adam Fabian <awfabian@gmail.com>]

Try the '-s' or '--special-files' switch to the file command.

turingmachine# file  -s /dev/scd1
/dev/scd1: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'FOO'

My first thought worked, incidentally, which was more like:

head /dev/scd0 | file -