How to know what filesystem is on my ubuntu and whether dir_index is enabled?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Michael wrote:
> It might say so in gparted.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:48 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 01/25/2010 03:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>>> Could somebody let me know how to figure out what filesystem is on my
>>>> ubuntu machine? And how to check whether dir_index is enabled?
>>>>
>>> $ cat /etc/fstab
>>>
>>> will generally provide you with the filesystem information. Example:
>>>
>>> $ cat /etc/fstab
>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>>> #
>>> #  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
>>> #
>>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>>>
>>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>>> # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
>>> UUID=c<snipped> / ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>>>
>>> From the above you can see that the filesystem is ext4.
>>>
>>> Another cli method is to use parted:
>>>
>>> $ sudo parted -l
>>>
>>> For a GUI, use gparted.
>> There are xfs and ext3 filesystems on my machine. How to check if
>> dir_index is enabled?
>>
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> 
> 
> 
	It will say but he can't use gparted because he can't touch 
the computer!

73 Karl


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