which fs on a partition?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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.
Tried that before posting:
$ mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/prov
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

I think the partition doesn't hold a fs, but I wanted to be sure...
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Jorge Almeida