Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:28:41 -0700 (PDT) From: dpk <dpk@dpk.net> To: "Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to know the file system type [programming] Message-ID: <20050817132719.N13385@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <20050817195522.28381.qmail@web50101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050817195522.28381.qmail@web50101.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, 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 > > thanks in advance I'd check out the fdisk code. For example: $ fdisk /dev/ad0 | grep sysid sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) Figure out how it determines the sysid, and then you can use that in your code. You'd still need a function to determine what disks are physically present.
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