Identifying file systems

There are many ways to identify a file system inside a partition.

When an operating system attempts to mount a partition, it may use the ID from the partition table.

There are several tools that can identify the partition from the data it contains, including:

• blkid
• file
• parted
• testdisk

In general you should not rely on the partition record for determining the partition type.

Some of the test images created for the Honeynet Challenges have multiple file systems contained in a single partition.