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