Linux 101 : Getting information about the devices and the filesystem - lsblk -



To be able to list all the filesystem types available on a system, we use the below command:


We could also use the "lsblk" command to list the device names and type of the filesystem using he below option:


The above command lists all the block device, their name and their type. 
To be able to list a specific devices, we add its name to the command as below:


We could also use "lsblk" with a partition "/dev/sdb2" for example  as we can see below:


To be able to see other information, like the mountpoints of the devices, the size of the devices, their space usage, ..., we use the below command:


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