Re: file system analogue of blkid.

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Hello,

peasthope@shaw.ca a écrit :
> blkid gives the salient parameters of a partition.

Actually blkid prints attributes of structures (filesystem, swap, RAID
component...) contained in block devices (partition, whole disk, RAID
array, logical volume...). These are not attributes of partitions
themselves.

> Is there an analogous command yielding parameters 
> of a filesystem?

This is filesystem-type dependent. For ext2/3/4, see tune2fs -l.

> yielding type of filesystem, whether it is bootable, 
> number of inodes, size of blocks & etc.

A filesystem is not bootable. A partition or a disk may be.