Answer by Jan for Method to test if disks in system are formatted
Depending on how you access the drives, you could use blkid -o list (deprecated) on them and then parse the output. The command outputs, among other things, a fs_type label column, that shows the...
View ArticleAnswer by Stephen Harris for Method to test if disks in system are formatted
The logic I would use may appear to be a little convoluted, but I think it should catch the failure mode. Basically the steps are mke2fs mount the filesystem Create a file called "format.complete" in...
View ArticleMethod to test if disks in system are formatted
Currently working on a project where I'm dealing with an arbitrary group of disks in multiple systems. I've written a suite of software to burn-in these disks. Part of that process was to format the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....
