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Re: EXT2 or EXT3 : What have I got?



On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 02:35 -0800, Harshal wrote:
> i don't see any filesystem type, after file -s /dev/hda1, instead i see
> the following, what's wrong?
> 
> [harshal@aips ~]$ file -s /dev/hda1
> /dev/hda3:
> [harshal@aips ~]$

That's because "file" looks at files, not devices.

What it's job really is:

  $ file 7NIF2-_V.4_-latest.pdf
  7NIF2-_V.4_-latest.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3

  $ file usb.devices.sxw
  usb.devices.sxw: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

  $ file unix_history.html
  unix_history.html: HTML document text

  $ file ballmerwindows.wmv
  ballmerwindows.wmv: Microsoft ASF

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