Tim Schumacher <t...@we-are-teh-b.org> 2010-08-04 12:19: > 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
Having just cranked out something where I needed similar info [1] I found that the file command doesn't understand all blockdev/filesystem types. The blkid command is a little bit better at that. Brian [1] http://cae.wisc.edu/~bpkroth/src/san-snapshots/
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