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Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:17:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: john simms <test4321test@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: how to tell?
To: stimits@idcomm.com, "linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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cat /etc/fstab


--- "D. Stimits" <stimits@idcomm.com> wrote:
> This seems strangely simple, and possibly absurd to
> ask, but now that I
> have a system running with xfs, I have to wonder if
> there is some
> fast/simple way to sit down at any linux machine and
> find out what
> filesystem type it runs on a particular mount point?
> df, does not say,
> and fdisk only mentions linux native. For ext2 there
> is the lost+found
> directory as a clue, but I don't know if maybe some
> other future system
> might also have this directory; add to this that
> migrating an old
> filesystem can leave a lost+found on the new one as
> an artifact, so it
> really is not a good clue. What is the simple means
> to know that a
> machine I'm sitting at as an administrator (but not
> installed by me) is
> running xfs or any other filesystem type?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
> 


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