On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hendrik Boom - 11.08.19, 14:44:53 CEST:
> > That may be true. You can also check with “wipefs” tool (don't worry,
> > > without -a it won't wipe anything):
> > >
> > > wipefs --no-act /dev/sda4
> > >
> > > Wipefs has a big database of various filesystem metadata, it detects
> > > almost anything.
> >
> > april:/farhome/hendrik# wipefs --no-act /dev/sda4
> > april:/farhome/hendrik#
> >
> > Looks empty.
> >
> > Thanks. Now I wonder why I ever created that partition.
>
> To complete that, what does
>
> file -sk /dev/sda4
>
> show?

april:/farhome/hendrik# file -sk /dev/sda4
/dev/sda4: data
april:/farhome/hendrik#

I guess this means it didn't find anything to recognise.

-- hendrik.