{"id":38896,"date":"2020-02-23T00:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38896"},"modified":"2020-02-23T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:52:51","slug":"linux-block-devices-info-about-a-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-block-devices-info-about-a-file-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: block devices: info about a file system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Linux: the tutor mentions Linux block devices and how to discover the file system type.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn a Linux file system, a block device is a device listed as if it&#8217;s a file in a directory. The command\n<\/p><p>\nlsblk -f\n<\/p><p>\nwill list them, and tell the file systems of the storage devices.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/259193\/what-is-a-block-device\/259197\">stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/find-linux-filesystem-type\/\">tecmint.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Linux: the tutor mentions Linux block devices and how to discover the file system type. In a Linux file system, a block device is a device listed as if it&#8217;s a file in a directory. The command lsblk &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-block-devices-info-about-a-file-system\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux: block devices: info about a file system<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38900,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896\/revisions\/38900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}