Showing posts with label filesystem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filesystem. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

How to find filesystem type in linux machine?

There are many ways to find the filesystem of a partition in linux (provided the partition mounted)
Following are the command line tools run these commands as is in terminal.

1.  cat /etc/fstab

2.  cat /etc/mtab

3.  mount

4.  df -T

Note:  You should know the partition number (like /dev/sda2, /dev/sda4 etc.,) or the partition label (Like mypendrive, 8GB_drive etc.,) or the UUID number.