is there a way to tell that you have ext4 filesystem vs ext3

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:11 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 10/3/08, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: is there a way to tell that you have ext4 filesystem vs ext3
> > To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 5:33 PM
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Antonio Olivares
> > <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Dear fellow testers,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to tell if one is running ext4
> > filesystem vs. ext3?

Run 'mount'. If it's ext4, the filesystem will be listed as 'ext4dev'.

> > > I used ext4 boot parameter to install Fedora 10 Beta,
> > but I am not sure that the filesystem is ext4 :(

Unless you did custom partitioning and told it to use ext4, you got the
standard setup - which means ext3. 

> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Antonio
> > 
> > If you run Gparted, will it show the file system type
> > correctly?
> 
> Gparted does not show the filesystem types?  If it does, how do I run it?
> I tried LiveCD, but it does not show what filesystem type it is.  fdisk shows:
> 
> [root at riohigh ~]# fdisk -l

fdisk shows the *partition* type. partitions can contain any filesystem
type that Linux knows about. So this won't help.

-w