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

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?
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> 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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