fdisk -l /dev/hdx
where.. x is the letter of the hard drive

--rybolov

"Barker, Gerald A (MD)" wrote:

>
>
> I have a second hard drive that I partitioned with Mandrake.
> When I installed Red Hat 7 I didn't repartition it and now I want
> to mount it, but I don't remember what format or file system it is in.
>
> I have tried a few but the whole system crashes or the directory ls is
>
> unreadable.  How can I interrogate the disk to know which filesystem
> e.g. msdos,vfat,etc ( presumably it isn't ext2)  hdparm gives me all
> kinds of
> sector info but I don't know how to interpret it.
>
> Thanks Garry

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