How can I know which format has my extern Harddrive please?

[nicrnicr]

Hello everybody,
Could someone write me how I can know which format has my extern HardDisc (NTFS, FAT, ...)? :-)

[Snowhog]

Just launch Partition Manager and look at the drive.

[GreyGeek]

sudo parted /dev/sdX -l

[Rod J]

Here's another way to do this: df -hT

The second column gives the file system format: vfat = FAT32 usually. For external hard disks it will usually be ntfs.

[dequire]

Two more GUI ways to tell at a glance would be "KDE Partition Manager" and "Disks", both available in Discover.

[GreyGeek]

df -hT only gives info on mounted drives.

sudo fdisk -l
gives info on all disks, mounted or not.

[dequire]

df -hT only gives info on mounted drives.

sudo fdisk -l
gives info on all disks, mounted or not.

However, I'm not seeing the partition format when running that command, unless I somehow missed it. That's what the O.P. was looking for.

[kubicle]

lsblk -f

(will list file systems on all connected block devices, whether mounted or not)

You can also use the file command to get detailed information on a particular device:

sudo file -s /dev/sda1

[nicrnicr]

delighted

Thank you very much Snowhog, Greygeek, Rod J, dequire & kubicle :-)

[GreyGeek]

However, I'm not seeing the partition format when running that command, unless I somehow missed it. That's what the O.P. was looking for.

mmm... I read it to mean that he was looking for the type of OS on the device

Hello everybody,
Could someone write me how I can know which format has my extern HardDisc (NTFS, FAT, ...)? :-)

.
"Partition" was only mentioned by subsequent posters.

[dequire]

I stand corrected

[oshunluvr]

lsblk -f

(will list file systems on all connected block devices, whether mounted or not)

Didn't know this one, thank Kub

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