From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Aug 17 20:28:26 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693E816A41F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:28:26 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com)
Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C8043D46
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:28:25 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com)
Received: (from dan@localhost)
	by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j7HKSPoF065068;
	Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:28:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:28:24 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20050817202824.GB60291@dan.emsphone.com>
References: <43039A20.7030803@azimainc.com>
	<20050817202518.64656.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <20050817202518.64656.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
X-message-flag: Outlook Error
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jdyke@azimainc.com
Subject: Re: how to know the file system type [programming]
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:28:26 -0000

In the last episode (Aug 17), Jorge Mario G. Mazo said:
>  --- jdyke <jdyke@azimainc.com> escribió:
> > 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
>
> it has to be pure C and parsing the fstab in C is not an option! also
> what about if the partition is not in fstab?

You didn't say anything about needing it in C :)  The answer is much
easier then; just call statfs() and look at the f_fstypename field. 
See the statfs manpage for more details.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com