Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:25:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: jdyke <jdyke@azimainc.com> Cc: "Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to know the file system type [programming] Message-ID: <20050817202514.GA60291@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <43039A20.7030803@azimainc.com> References: <20050817195522.28381.qmail@web50101.mail.yahoo.com> <43039A20.7030803@azimainc.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 17), jdyke said:
> Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote:
> >hi there
> >I've been looking for a way to check the fs type
> >I need to do something like this
> >
> >if NTFS do this
> >if msdis do that
> >if ufs2 do that
> >if ext2 do this other stuff
>
> not sure if this is what your looking for, but there are likely a million
> ways, one being
>
> in bash
any bourne shell, actually.
> $ fs_to_check=/dev/ad4s1g
> $ fstype=`grep $fs_to_check /etc/fstab | awk '{ print $3 }'`
> $ echo $fstype
> ufs
Might be better to use the output of "mount -p" instead of /etc/fstab,
since the filesystem may have been automounted or otherwise not in
fstab. Unfortunately, mount -p doesn't take an argument to limit the
output to just the filessytem listed..
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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