At Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:11:40 +0100, Tom Grace wrote: > On 08/04/2010 01:13 AM, GNUbie wrote: > > How can I check if a block device (partition) has one or any of the > > following characteristics: > > > > [1] raw > > > > [2] has content > > > > [3] formatted > > > > but without actually mounting it? > > testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) will tell you that.
This works also as root: file -s /dev/sda1 greetings Tim
