Cannot determine filesystem type of partition

Kenny_Strawn · 02-27-2011, 10:35 PM

As per these instructions, I got up to the end of the "Acquiring an Ubuntu filesystem" step (where it asks you to mount the newly created Ubuntu partition) and ran into a problem: The partition won't mount, as the file system type cannot be determined because I cannot remember the file system used during installation. Is there any command that prints the file system type of GPT partitions? Thanks.

repo · 02-28-2011, 03:22 AM

Perhaps you can use gparted ?

Kind regards

Kenny_Strawn · 02-28-2011, 09:20 AM

I used 'parted -l' (it's a dumb terminal on my Google Cr-48 in developer mode) and for some reason it isn't printing the filesystem type of any of the kernel partitions or the Ubuntu root partition.

For those who are curious: I am following these instructions as I had said before.

Charles4809 · 02-28-2011, 02:56 PM

Usually I do:

sudo fdisk -l

In this case I'm not sure it would work. There seems to be a lot of partitions.

Charles.

Kenny_Strawn · 02-28-2011, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charles4809

Usually I do:

sudo fdisk -l

In this case I'm not sure it would work. There seems to be a lot of partitions.

Charles.

And on top of that, the Cr-48 uses the GPT partition table. Fdisk doesn't recognize GPT partition tables. So, I have to use 'parted -l' (and the FS type still shows up blank).

JZL240I-U · 03-01-2011, 01:13 AM

As I understand your link you want to work on Android? I seem to remember that they use btrfs as default file system. You need a patched GRUB for that AFAIR. HTH.