Re: [SLUG] filesystem identification

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 16:05:44 EDT


On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, R.G. Mayhue wrote:

> On Saturday 16 October 2004 02:45 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, R.G. Mayhue wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:34 pm, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > > Levi Bard wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:12:14 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
> > > > >
> > > > > <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > >> In general, what should I do?
> > > > >
> > > > > I never found a good solution to this other than trial && error.
> > > >
> > > > I don't recall, but . . . is it possible to mount a drive or partition
> > > > without knowing the filesystem type, even if it's not in fstab?
> > >
> > > Mount will probe the superblock for the filesystem type if no -t option
> > > is given.
> >
> > Only among those filesystems it knows about, and sometimes it guesses
> > wrong (umsdos vs FAT).
>
> Which is why I said to look at the warning under the -t option.

I see the part of mount.8 about vfstype (lines 160-211 on my screen).
What in there would help me identify an unknown, support-uncompiled
filesystem?

Or were you only talking about the order in which it guesses
(/etc/filesystems IIRC)?

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