How to determine what partition is still not formatted?

[kalinix]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:59 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > ...
> > Just typing in mount will show you what's mounted.  You can compare that
> > against fdisk -l to find out more about what's missing.
> 
> As long as there are no partitions that have been formatted but not mounted.
> 
> AFAIK the only way to see if a partition is formatted is to try and 
> mount it. Mount can try to determine how the partition is formatted, so 
> if it gives up you can be pretty sure that partition is not formatted, 
> at least for any filesystems the kernel has support for.
> 
> I actually keep a disk/partition inventory, by hand, in a spreadsheet, 
> because I've never found a good admin tool that can print a nice summary 
> of the info I need to know (e.g., the OP's question) when installation 
> time rolls around. It doesn't change often so it's not a huge chore, but 
> if anyone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it.
> 
> <Joe
> 
Or you can use parted to whether there is a filesystem on it.

eg. if you issue parted /dev/sdx and then print, you are able to see all
the partitions on sdx, including flags, filesystems a.s.o.


HTH,


Calin

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