Re: EXT2 or EXT3 : What have I got?
i'm curious, what if you've got a hard drive, and you don't know what it's formatted as... without just doing trial and
error in /etc/fstab, is there a better way to discover what a hard drive is formatted as?
-rp
----- Original Message -----
From: "jim biri" <jim.biri@gmail.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: EXT2 or EXT3 : What have I got?
> Wonderful. Thanks.
>
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:16:47 +0000, Dave Ewart <davee@sungate.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 09.03.2005 at 10:03 +0000, jim biri wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, How can I find out what file type my partitions have been setup as
> > > - i.e. either ext2 or ext3?
> > >
> > > If I use cfisk - I can see the file type number - 83 for Linux - but I
> > > can't see anything explicitly stating ext2 or ext3.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the dumb question.
> >
> > Type 'mount' - this will show all your mounted partitions: their
> > physical disk partition, their mount point and their filesystem type.
> >
> > The information is also held in /etc/fstab ...
> >
> > Dave.
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