From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 8 22:27:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA9516A4DD for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:27:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from H43.C18.B96.tor.eicat.ca (H43.C18.B96.tor.eicat.ca [66.96.18.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71C343D45 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:27:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (desktop.home.local [172.16.0.200]) by H43.C18.B96.tor.eicat.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7212B1140B; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:27:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B0313E.6010103@rogers.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:27:10 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> <44AFD7DF.8090002@errno.com> <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SpamToaster-Information: This messages has been scanned by SpamToaster http://www.digitalprogression.ca X-SpamToaster: Found to be clean X-SpamToaster-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.49, required 3.5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.00, BAYES_00 -2.60, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST 1.71) X-SpamToaster-From: mikej@rogers.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:27:07 -0000 Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I was thinking of doing something like that. You can basically > get the same info by doing something like: > > file - < /dev/ad0s1e > /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian) > > file - < /dev/ad0s4 > /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem > This does not work on my system btw. root@fbsd.home.local:~# file - < /dev/ad0 /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector root@fbsd.home.local:~# file - < /dev/ad0s1 /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0x0, reserved 0x16, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x1f), BSD disklabel root@fbsd.home.local:~# file - < /dev/ad0s1a /dev/stdin: data root@fbsd.home.local:~# file - < /dev/ad0s1b /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0x0, reserved 0x16, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x1f), BSD disklabel root@fbsd.home.local:~# file - < /dev/ad0s1c /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0x0, reserved 0x16, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x1f), BSD disklabel No mention of FS type. root@fbsd.home.local:~# df -h|grep ad0 /dev/ad0s1a 73G 12G 55G 18% /