which fs on a partition?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, John C. Voigt wrote:

> 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.
>
First thing I did. fdisk shows the partition type, not the fs type. 
But never mind, I already nuked the partition. I'm pretty sure it was
empty...

Jorge