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

[John Summerfield]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Fri, 10/3/08, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.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, 6:43 PM
>> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:23 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>> Is there a way to tell if one is running ext4
>> filesystem vs. ext3?
>>> I used ext4 boot parameter to install Fedora 10 Beta,
>> but I am not sure that the filesystem is ext4 :(
>>
>> libblkid can tell the difference
>>    /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /path/to/blkdev
>>
>> Jeremy
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> Thank you very much, and to all who also have answered.  I have found out that i am running indeed ext4, but it says ext4dev, Here's the proof

<snip>

> [root at riohigh ~]# /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda5
> /dev/sda5: TYPE="ext4dev" 
> 

In that case, my earlier suggestion needs some translation:-)


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