[plug] Filesystems

[levsky at rave.iinet.net.au]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:19:53PM +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> Once an install and format of the partition, etc.. has been done, how can
> you tell what file system its using (assuming you're dealing with someone
> else's machine and they have no idea if they selected ext2 or ext3 :) ?

cat /etc/mtab

> Also, assuming you're using ext3, whats the best way to go about doing an
> integrity check? Just use fsck, or will some switches need to be added?

If you've got the filesystem unmounted then yep, e2fsck will do the job.

Cheers

mark

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