How Do I Determine My Drive's File Format?
How Do I Find out What Format My Hard Drive Is in? 3 Answers to Find out What Type of File System the Currently Mounted Drive Is Running Use This Command: Df...
How do I find out what format my hard drive is in?
3 Answers
To find out what type of file system the currently mounted drive is running use this command:
df -T
For more on the "df" tool you can visit the man page via:
man df
(press q to exit)
To find out, just run disk utility to find out the drive format type.
Use Disk Utility and click on the drive you are interested in. A block diagram will be displayed and labels will indicate the format type.
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