Determining filesystem type in use

chriscore · 03-21-2005, 05:29 PM

Hi guys,

I have started to install gentoo, with '/boot' as ext2 and ext3(at least I thought) for '/' , however when I opened up fstab to create the appropriate entrys , I found it had automatically been completed, however '/' was listed as XFS and not ext3..?

So, as per the title, I need to determine what FS '/' is really using.. any ideas on how to go about this?

thanks guys.

Tinkster · 03-21-2005, 05:34 PM

mount

masonm · 03-21-2005, 07:50 PM

Mount the drives as outlined in the handbook. When you mount the system will report back what filesystem it finds.

ginda · 03-22-2005, 07:28 PM

You could also use fdisk -l

Tinkster · 03-22-2005, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ginda
You could also use fdisk -l

That won't give you a file-system, just partition types.

chriscore · 03-22-2005, 08:05 PM

Thanks for your help guys, but it seems mount did not give me the correct FS type, and as Tinkster said in his reply, 'fdisk -l' only reported the partition types, in the end I found out by using 'cfdisk' which reported that my root was indeed ext3.

thanks again.

homey · 03-22-2005, 08:19 PM

How about : cat /etc/fstab