27 Mar 2007 at 16:47 #1 MrWhippy MrWhippy Associate Joined 15 Sep 2005 Posts 1,746 i'm having an empty head day, i'm sure i've done this before, but can't remember how. anyone suggest the linuxy way i discover the filesystem type of an unmounted hdd. if it make a difference, i'm running openSuse and the drive is /dev/hdb
i'm having an empty head day, i'm sure i've done this before, but can't remember how. anyone suggest the linuxy way i discover the filesystem type of an unmounted hdd. if it make a difference, i'm running openSuse and the drive is /dev/hdb
27 Mar 2007 at 16:51 #2 Una Una Associate Joined 26 Nov 2004 Posts 2,471 Location Reading / Lake District fdisk /dev/hdb Then just hit p to print the partitions out.
27 Mar 2007 at 17:01 #3 matja matja Associate Joined 29 Sep 2005 Posts 819 Location St Neots / Dublin I use 'disktype' : Code: # disktype /dev/sda1 --- /dev/sda1 Block device, size 19.09 GiB (20497365504 bytes) Windows NTLDR boot loader NTFS file system Volume size 18.63 GiB (19999993856 bytes, 39062488 sectors)
I use 'disktype' : Code: # disktype /dev/sda1 --- /dev/sda1 Block device, size 19.09 GiB (20497365504 bytes) Windows NTLDR boot loader NTFS file system Volume size 18.63 GiB (19999993856 bytes, 39062488 sectors)
27 Mar 2007 at 20:04 #4 MrWhippy MrWhippy Associate OP Joined 15 Sep 2005 Posts 1,746 brilliant, fdisk did the trick, and yep, that's the way i've done it before. so obvious when someone points it out. never heard of disktype, but off to play with it now. i'm sure it'll come in. thanks all...
brilliant, fdisk did the trick, and yep, that's the way i've done it before. so obvious when someone points it out. never heard of disktype, but off to play with it now. i'm sure it'll come in. thanks all...
