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

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
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It did:

[root at HP-DL360 ~]# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: empty




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