Determining filesystem type in use
 

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.

mount

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

You could also use fdisk -l

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

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.

How about : cat /etc/fstab