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Re: how to tell?

To: "D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: how to tell?
From: Craig Tierney <ctierney@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:10:19 -0600
Cc: "linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3B228F91.3E63027C@xxxxxxxxxx>; from stimits@xxxxxxxxxx on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:05:21PM -0600
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cat /proc/partitions

Look at the 3rd item on each line.

Craig

> 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@xxxxxxxxxx

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Craig Tierney (ctierney@xxxxxxxx)
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