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  • fsarchiver - probe disks and partitions

    Another alternative to blkid, lsblk, file -s, cat /proc/paritions, fdisk -l, etc.. Show Sample Output


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    fsarchvier probe simple
    0xFF · 2013-04-28 10:16:18 0

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