Re: [CentOS] how do determine last file system on disk?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.netwrote:

On 06/25/2011 06:46 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

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Hi all,

Does anyone know how to determine which file system a disk was formatted

with,

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if fdisk -l doesn't show it?

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I need to see what data is on a bunch of disks that I found in storage

and would

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prefer to first check if there's anything of use on them before I format

them

Running "file -s /dev/{some_partition}" will generally tell you something.

-- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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It did:

[root@HP-DL360 ~]# file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: empty