Re: file system analogue of blkid.

[Dom <toyer@rpdom.net>]

On 04/09/13 01:59, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> *	From: Sven Joachim<svenjoac@gmx.de>
> *	Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:48:45 +0200
> > ... for ext[234] filesystems
> > dumpe2fs(8) gives quite a lot of useful information.
>
> Is there anything similar for FAT?
>
> I'm interested to find the "sectors-per-cluster" for an extant filesystem.

Try file -s /dev/sdXn

dom@oz:~$ file -s /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: sticky x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3e, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", 
Bytes/sector 2048, sectors/cluster 16, root entries 1024, Media 
descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 242, heads 236, hidden sectors 32, sectors 
989280 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0x0, label: "           ", FAT 
(16 bit)

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Dom