Which file system am I using?

Joel Hammer Joel
Mon May 17 11:55:52 PDT 2004


OK, mount shows that my original disk is reiserfs. My new partition is
ext2, whichI just created with fdisk. There is no choice for reiserfs or
ext3 with fdisk. Does one simple run mkfs to get the file system of choice?

Joel

How can I get On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:59:47PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Consuming 0.3K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered:
> > What command can I issue to see what file system I am running on a
> > linux partition?
> 
> mount usually works for me:
> 
> $ mount  
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (r0)
> /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdb2 on /archive type ext3 (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> 192.168.0.1:/var/spool/mail on /var/spool/mail type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.0.1)
> 


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