On 2013-08-21 16:49 +0200, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > blkid gives the salient parameters of a partition. > Is there an analogous command yielding parameters > of a filesystem? Hypothetically, > fsid /dev/sda1 > yielding type of filesystem, whether it is bootable, > number of inodes, size of blocks & etc. I'm not aware of a generic utility, but for ext[234] filesystems dumpe2fs(8) gives quite a lot of useful information. Cheers, Sven