'file' seems to work on here, but you need to add '-s' to use it on special files.

'sudo file -s /dev/sdd*' works here to tell me that I have an x86 boot sector on /dev/sdd and an ext4 filesystem on /dev/sdd1. Adding '-k' shows more information.

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