On Tuesday 05 August 2008 16:11, Chuck Payne wrote:
Guy,
This might be a nubie question, but last night I installed a new sata card and 1TB drive. Well, I thought I had made the 1TB drive ext3, but when I got to mount it, I get wrong super block error. Now, if I tell that to mount it with auto it does. So how can I tell what format is the partions, because it not ext3.
Use "file -s" command on the partition's /dev entry. You usually must be root to do this. On my system: # file -s /dev/sd[a-z][0-9] /dev/sda1: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks 73254384 r5 hash /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdb2: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR /dev/sdb3: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 1048240 pages /dev/sdb4: x86 boot sector, extended partition table /dev/sdc1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd2: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd3: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) This works on CDs and DVDs, too, if there's a disc in the drive. and will show you the volume label.
Thanks.
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org