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

[John R Pierce]

On 06/26/11 12:58 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
> All the drives are old 160GB SATA. There's 1x 160GB IDE as well.
>
> They were used in the office on various machines, so no hardware RAID, 
> but they definitely had some data on them.
> I did get some drives with software RAID on and could recover the 
> data, but there's 2 drives which I can't figure out what filesystem 
> they have / had on them.
> We use Linux & FreeBSD, so I suspect they had ZFS / UFS on them, but 
> couldn't mount them on a FreeBSD server with ZFS or UFS either.
>

is it possible you used the raw disk without partitioning?   so in 
linux, that would be /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 or whatever.


on a random server with normally partitioned disks...

# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, 
startsector 63, 256977 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, 
startsector 257040, 4192965 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, 
startsector 4450005, 138914055 sectors, code offset 0x48

# file -s /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)




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