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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?

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blkid -d /dev/VOLUME
/dev/VOLUME: UUID="97da23eb-542e-4f5f-9cc8-5108ee6a1f2e" TYPE="ext3"

But 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.

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