[SOLVED] Linux: how to detect if an USB-drive has NTFS or FAT file system?

[Hartmut]

Hmm. When I use "lsblk -f ..." instead of "lsblk -fs ..." then I also get no filesystems info. Why did you change "-fs" into "-f" ?

Alternatively I could use "lsblk --fs -p -r -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT". Both variants show me (some lines deleted):

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1. NAME FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
2. /dev/sda1 ntfs
3. /dev/sda2 vfat /media/D
4. /dev/sda9 vfat /media/X
5. /dev/sdd1 ntfs /media/hg6/Verbatim_HD

[lucamar]

Hmm. When I use "lsblk -f ..." instead of "lsblk -fs ..." then I also get no filesystems info. Why did you change "-fs" into "-f" ?

Because my lsblk didn't like the single dash "-fs"

Alternatively I could use "lsblk --fs -p -r -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT". Both variants show me (some lines deleted):

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1.  ...

Yes, my more modern boxes (xxbuntu 16 plus) show that info too but this one (with 12.04) doesn't. Quite logical: it's quite old (both the machine and the OS version).

[winni]

Hi!

Suse  Tumbleweed shows this

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1. NAME FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
2. /dev/sda  
3. /dev/sda1  
4. /dev/sda2 ext4 /
5. /dev/sda3 swap [SWAP]
6. /dev/sdb  
7. /dev/sdb1 ntfs /Windows
8. /dev/sdb2 ntfs /Data
9. /dev/sdb3 ntfs /MMedia
10. /dev/sdc  
11. /dev/sdc1 ext4
12. /dev/sr0 iso9660
13.  

Everything is fine.
Works also with -f or -fs

It is :
lsblk --version
lsblk from util-linux 2.34


Winni