Re: How to determine a file system type?

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 14 May 2006 09:57:24 -0700, nepenou staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
I need to determine the file system type [of a partition] [without]
trying to mount it.

Why? Details Count.

My idea is to find the FS magic number. The problem is: I don't know
the offset to the magic number position on the disk.

The magic numbers are in different places in different filesystems. If
I were you, I'd start by downloading the util-linux source tarball and
looking at the source for mount, specifically mount_guess_fstype.c .
That should get you started. HTH,


Or fdisk -l /dev/hda
(or whatever the disk is)

.

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