On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote:
On 06/25/2011 06:46 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to determine which file system a disk was formatted with,
> if fdisk -l doesn't show it?
[snip]
> I need to see what data is on a bunch of disks that I found in storage and would
> 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.
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It did:
[root@HP-DL360 ~]# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: empty