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

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Sun Jun 26 08:00:46 UTC 2011


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.
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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

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Rudi Ahlers
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