which fs on a partition?

[John C. Voigt]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 12:15 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > 
> >> I generally do this:
> >>
> >>   /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/hda9
> >>
> >> Or where-ever 'vol_id' might be on your box.
> >>
> > $ /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/hda9
> > /dev/hda9: unknown volume type
> 
> I'd suspect that hda9 contains approximately nothing.
> 
> Michael

Long shot here, but how about:

fdisk /dev/hda

(usual fdisk warnings apply)

then 'p' to print the partition table entries. Fdisk can usually pick up
the fstype.

HTH,

John
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