is there a way to tell that you have ext4 filesystem vs ext3

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Sat Oct 4 12:57:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com>
> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: is there a way to tell that you have ext4 filesystem vs ext3
> 
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/3/08, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: is there a way to tell that you have ext4 filesystem vs ext3
>> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 5:33 PM
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Antonio Olivares
>> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Dear fellow testers,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to tell if one is running ext4
>> filesystem vs. ext3?
>>>
>>> I used ext4 boot parameter to install Fedora 10 Beta,
>> but I am not sure that the filesystem is ext4 :(
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Antonio
>>
>> If you run Gparted, will it show the file system type
>> correctly?
>
> Gparted does not show the filesystem types?  If it does, 
> how do I run it? I tried LiveCD, but it does not show what 
> filesystem type it is.  fdisk shows:

On F8 Gparted shows the filesystem types for me. However it 
does not show or appear to support the ext4 fs type yet.

HTH

Keith

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