How do I tell which kind of file system a hdd has in Knoppix

[HisHighness]

I've got viruses up the yin yang on my C drive for windows, so I'd like to use knoppix to clean it. I got f-prot working and all, but I'd like to have it clean it too. I've read it's unsafe to do this with NFTS but ok with FAT so I just want to know how to check which my C drive is in knoppix. I've tried right clicking and choosing properties but that doesn't work.

[angor]

1) Mount the partition
If I remember correctly, this is simply a left-click on the partition's
icon; it should show a green "LED" afterwards.
If that doesn't work, open a console and type
<almost code>
mount -o ro -t xxx /dev/hdyz
</almost code>
Substitute "yz" with the appropriate value for disk and partition
(probably "a1") and "xxx" with "vfat" or "ntfs". A successful
operation should tell you the filesystem type. Oops, I assume too
much: should your disk be SCSI (or SATA) substitute an "s" for the "h".

2) Once the partition is mounted, type in a console
<code>
mount
</code>
All mounted partitions will be shown along with their types.

[HisHighness]

Thanks for the help. :D

[michapma]

It's actually even easier than that. You can see this information by an fdisk listing. Once you're in Knoppix, open the X terminal by clicking on Konsole (you're obviously this far anyway, but just for completeness).

In the terminal, type in the command
su This switches you to superuser, which you need to run fdisk. Now enter the command
fdisk -l You should get a listing that looks similar to this output that I pulled from Google (note that in this case the df command was also used):
# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 8625 4346968+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 * 8626 60915 26354160 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 60916 61118 102312 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 61119 77545 8279208 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 61119 76505 7755016+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 76506 77545 524128+ 82 Linux swap

# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 6928080 317436 96% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm

Partition /dev/hda1 (probably C:\) is formatted with FAT, and partition /dev/hda2 is formatted with NTFS (possibly D:\ or E:\ in Windows).

You can also run
df -H The -H switch provides a more readable output (MB or GB instead of 1K-blocks).

Maybe that will help anyone who does a forum search in the future.