which fs on a partition?

[C M Reinehr]

On Friday 13 July 2007 02:49, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Anyone knows any tool that would guess which fs (if any) was installed
> on a unmounted partition? The purpose is to make sure that the partition
> doesn't hold any forgotten data before nuking it.

Try `file -s /dev/hda9` or whatever partition it is that you're testing.

HTH

cmr
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