On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, June 25, 2011 07:46:01 AM Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Does anyone know how to determine which file system a disk was formatted > > with, if fdisk -l doesn't show it? > > blkid -s TYPE > > On a C5 box here: > [root at backup670 ~]# blkid -s TYPE > /dev/mapper/vg_backup670-lv_root: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/md1: TYPE="swap" > /dev/md0: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/sdb2: TYPE="swap" > /dev/sdb1: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" > /dev/sda1: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/hda: TYPE="iso9660" > /dev/vg_backup670/lv_root: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/mapper/pachy--mirror-home: TYPE="xfs" > /dev/vg_opt/lv_pachy: TYPE="ext4" > /dev/pachy-mirror/home: TYPE="xfs" > /dev/mapper/vg_opt-lv_pachy: TYPE="ext4" > [root at backup670 ~]# > > On a RHEL 6.1 box here: > [root at www ~]# blkid -s TYPE > /dev/sdd1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sde1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sdk1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sdn1: TYPE="xfs" > /dev/sdg1: TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sds1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sdy1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sdaa1: TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sdag1: TYPE="linux_raid_member" > /dev/sdx1: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/sdaf1: TYPE="linux_raid_member" > /dev/sdad1: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/sdah1: TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sdah2: TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/mapper/vg_www-lv_root: TYPE="ext4" > /dev/mapper/vg_www-lv_swap: TYPE="swap" > /dev/md127: TYPE="ext3" > /dev/mapper/vg_bak2-lv_lobak: TYPE="ext4" > [root at www ~]# > > Useful stuff. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > wow, this is quite a neat trick! But, it didn't help me much: [root at HP-DL360 ~]# blkid -s TYPE /dev/mapper/LVM-swap: TYPE="swap" /dev/mapper/LVM-root: TYPE="ext3" /dev/cciss/c0d0p1: TYPE="ext3" /dev/LVM/root: TYPE="ext3" /dev/LVM/swap: TYPE="swap" /dev/mapper/LVM-data: TYPE="ext3" [root at HP-DL360 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda [root at HP-DL360 ~]# Which filesystems can this command recognize? I checked the MAN page, but couldn't find a list of filesystems that it's familiar with -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110626/8bc7e3cd/attachment-0005.html>