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Tim Schumacher <tim@...> 2010-08-04 12:19:
> At Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:11:40 +0100,
> Tom Grace wrote:
> > On 08/04/2010 01:13 AM, GNUbie wrote:
> > > How can I check if a block device (partition) has one or any of the
> > > following characteristics:
> > >
> > > [1] raw
> > >
> > > [2] has content
> > >
> > > [3] formatted
> > >
> > > but without actually mounting it?
> >
> > testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) will tell you that.
>
> This works also as root:
>
> file -s /dev/sda1
>
> greetings
>
> Tim
Having just cranked out something where I needed similar info [1] I
found that the file command doesn't understand all blockdev/filesystem
types. The blkid command is a little bit better at that.
Brian
[1] http://cae.wisc.edu/~bpkroth/src/san-snapshots/
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