I have an external hard drive and would like to know what kind of a file system it has.How do I find that out using the terminal?
Finding which filesystem
filesystems;terminal
blkid -d /dev/VOLUME/dev/VOLUME: UUID=97da23eb-542e-4f5f-9cc8-5108ee6a1f2e TYPE=ext3But with external disks: Mind the difference between disks and partitions: /dev/sdx vs. /dev/sdx1. It may be useful to check with fdisk -l /dev/sdx or cat /proc/partitions first.