On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:52:48PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > How do I identify what type of filesystem is on a partition?
> >
> > file -s /dev/hda1
> I must be missing something:
> # fdisk -l
fdisk(8) certainly won't tell you what filesystem format a partition
contains.
> # file -s /dev/hda[1-4]
This works for me. What version of file(1) do you have?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file -v
file-3.37-3.1
Either your version of file, or your magic(5) database is out of date.
Cheers,
-mjg
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