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Re: Checking FS type

To: Diyab <diyab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Checking FS type
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:51:44 -0600 (CST)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <40007A49.4060907@r00td0wn.net>
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From userspace you can use stat(1) "stat -f" and it will tell you
the filesystem type; older stats don't know about xfs,
so you might need to look for the raw magic number,
0x58465342 ("XFSB")

To do it from C, see statfs(2), and use the f_type result.

-Eric


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Diyab wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with SELinux and adding XFS attribute / security label 
> support into the API.  The problem I'm running into is trying to 
> determine what type of filesystem the file I'm operating on is located 
> on.  With ext2/3 the EA attribute name is different from what it will be 
> on an XFS file system so I need to detect the file system type from the 
> file stream I have open. I'm not familiar with how to check the file 
> system type since I've not done this before so does anyone have any 
> suggestions to give me? Any help is really appreciated, thanks!
> 
> Timothy,
> 
> Also please CC me because I am not on the list.
> 
> 


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