On Friday 10 February 2006 20:05, Iain Buchanan wrote: > 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. >
'file' determines filetypes primarily by looking for 'magic numbers' within the file, so 'file' should indeed identify the proper type of filesystem. In fact, if you have a filesystem in a regular file (such as a disk image), it will still properly identify the filesystem. -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia #
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