On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 06:07 +1200, Keith McGavin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:53:58PM +1200, John Mallett wrote: > > With out mounting a file system. How would I go about finding out what > > filesystems I have on my system. ie Vfat or ext2 > > is there a simple command > > > 'cfdisk' displays filesystem partitions and types. > > 'fdisk -l' is used in shell scripts.
AFAIK it doesn't say what filesystem is on the partition, just whether it is marked in the partition table as "linux" "linux swap" etc. It won't tell you whaether a partition marked "linux" is actually ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs etc etc. > > If you intend to partition your hardrive I recommend 'cfdisk' > Newbies using 'fdisk' have a habit of writing overlapping > partitions that result in filesystems being lost. > > from the 'fdisk' manual. > > > BUGS > There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its > problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk, > fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program > that has strict requirements on the partition tables it > accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use > it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy > things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. > Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD > disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it > if you can. > > > --- > keithmg. > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
