How to get the filesystem type of a disk partition?

zhaohuiyu2 · 05-05-2009, 02:17 AM

hi, Friends.
I am learning linux, I want to know through which command I can get the file system type of a special disk partition. such as /dev/sda1.
Any help is appreciated.

colucix · 05-05-2009, 02:26 AM

You can use the option -T of the df command. If you want to put the filesystem type in a variable (if you're writing a script) you have to extract this information from the output:

Code:

fstype=$(df -T /dev/sda1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}')

zhaohuiyu2 · 05-05-2009, 02:41 AM

Great! I get it. Thanks for your help

wjp.reg · 05-05-2009, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zhaohuiyu2

hi, Friends.
I am learning linux, I want to know through which command I can get the file system type of a special disk partition. such as /dev/sda1.
Any help is appreciated.

This works nicely too..

Code:

 sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd?

, where '?' specifies the drive a-z.

cheers