which fs on a partition?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 13 July 2007, 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.

Just try mounting it.   The system will usually figure out what the FS is on 
the partition.     Then just issue the 'mount' command by itself and it will 
show you what the FS is.