find out filesystem being used how?
Joachim Backes
joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Mon Oct 16 07:52:29 UTC 2006
Thufir wrote:
Hi Tufir,
parted or gparted give you an overview of partition types and file systems
which not need to be monted.
> I have a triple boot system: Fedora, Gentoo and Win2k.
>
> How do I find out the filesystem which the Gentoo installation employs?
> If Gentoo's using ext3, then I'd add the following line to the /etc/fstab
> file?
>
> /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo ext3 users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
>
> ?
>
> Can I probe hdb3 to find out the filesystem? I think it's ext3, but don't
> recall.
>
>
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# cat /etc/fstab -n
> 1 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
> 2 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> 3 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> 4 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> 5 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> 6 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> 7 /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 8 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 9 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
> [root at arrakis ~]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 1427 11462346 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdb2 1428 1440 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 1441 1495 441787+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hdb4 1496 3738 18016897+ 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/dm-0: 78.8 GB, 78852915200 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9586 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/dm-1: 1006 MB, 1006632960 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
> 1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> 2 #
> 3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> 4 # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> 5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> 6 # root (hd0,0)
> 7 # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 8 # initrd /initrd-version.img
> 9 #boot=/dev/hda
> 10 default=0
> 11 timeout=5
> 12 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 13 #hiddenmenu
> 14 title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5)
> 15 root (hd0,0)
> 16 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 17 initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img
> 18 title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5)
> 19 root (hd0,0)
> 20 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 21 initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.img
> 22 title win2k
> 23 map (hd0) (hd1)
> 24 map (hd1) (hd0)
> 25 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> 26 chainloader +1
> 27 title Gentoo
> 28 kernel (hd1,1)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb4
> 29 initrd (hd1,1)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# date
> Mon Oct 16 08:31:04 IST 2006
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# exit
> logout
>
> [thufir at arrakis ~]$
> [thufir at arrakis ~]$
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
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