I see what you mean. I created a reiserfs filesystem and file only recognised it as data. If the block devices are all hard disk partitions you should try fdisk:
fdisk -l Also, if you're interested in the filesystems of block devices that are already mounted, then just type: mount I don't know what is on the image /mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img but you could try to mount it and see if it's recognised. Just do the following: mkdir mp mount -v -o loop /mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img mp I take it you are sure that there are filesystems on these devices and that they are not corrupted! --- Pankaj Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > it doesn't provide the information seeked....i am > enclosing the output > below... > # file /mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img > > /mnt/hda5/hdstg2.img: data > > # dd if=/dev/hdc1 bs=1k count=5 | file - > > standard input: data > > 5+0 records in > > 4+0 records out > > # file -s /dev/hdc{,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} > > /dev/hdc: x86 boot sector > > /dev/hdc1: data > > /dev/hdc2: x86 boot sector, extended partition table > > /dev/hdc3: empty > > /dev/hdc4: empty > > /dev/hdc5: data > > /dev/hdc6: data > > /dev/hdc7: data > > /dev/hdc8: Linux/i386 swap file version 1 (4K pages) > size 63999 pages > > /dev/hdc9: data > > /dev/hdc10: empty > > kindly suggest more about it... > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs