On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote:
> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Fdisk -l
nooooo!!!
> Even easier:
> waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1
> /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs)
are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this
will just show what you've "told" the partition it is.
What happens if you mark a partition with fdisk as type, say, fat32, and
then run mkfs.ext3 over it? fdisk -l will show fat32, file will
do .....?
There are other tools to help you, like disktype:
* sys-block/disktype
Latest version available: 8
Latest version installed: 8
Size of downloaded files: 39 kB
Homepage: http://disktype.sourceforge.net/
Description: Detect the content format of a disk or disk image.
License: BSD
HTH,
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