Hendrik Boom - 12.08.19, 02:52:40 CEST:
> 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.

Exactly that.

--
Martin