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Robert Munn wrote:

> Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk,  
> specifically UFS2 or UFS1?
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You mean as an operator, or as a programmer?

Obviously, as an operator, mount(8) gives you this information
after a brief visual parsing.

I'm not a C programmer, but a quick lookup with apropos(1)
yields the following:

     getvfsbyname(3)          - get information about a file system

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey