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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:59:17 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        "hackers@FreeBSD.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: fstyp(8)
Message-ID:  <02915D00-6415-4C9C-B841-7351B0886BC0@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141208131107.GD68024@e-new.0x20.net>
References:  <20141205114635.GA12557@brick.home> <20141208131107.GD68024@e-new.0x20.net>

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Dnia 8 gru 2014 o godz. 14:11 Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> napisa=C5=82=
(a):

>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:46:35PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a wr=
ote:
>> I'm slowly working on making autofs suitable for mounting removable
>> media, and one of the things required is filesystem detection.  It's
>> kind of possible to use file(1), but it's, well, "suboptimal" for this
>> task.  So, I went and wrote fstyp(8).
>>=20
>> This utility, named after SVR4 command with same weird name, detects
>> filesystems.  It's mostly based on glabel code.  The output is machine
>> parseable, it can print out filesystem labels, and runs capsicated.
>>=20
>> You can join the review at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1255.
>=20
> Will it be possible to run "mount /dev/da$foo" without specifying a file
> system type?

No, but it's possible to run "mount -t `fstyp /dev/da$foo` /dev/da$foo /mnt"=
.  Or, with upcoming "-media" autofs map, just "cd /media/da$foo".




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