[ILUG] udev - determing file system type from partition

[Philip Reynolds]

Darragh Bailey wrote:
> So are there any utilities out there already that perform the following
> a) take the partition node name and return the filesystem type on it.

# file -s /dev/cciss/c0d0p7
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7: Linux/i386 swap file (new style)

or

# file -s /dev/cciss/c0d0p7
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal 
recovery)

/usr/share/magic on my Fedora Core system will contains a list of magic 
numbers where it takes it's information from.

Phil.