fstyp(8)

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Mon Dec 8 13:11:16 UTC 2014


On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:46:35PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> I'm slowly working on making autofs suitable for mounting removable
> media, and one of the things required is filesystem detection.  It's
> kind of possible to use file(1), but it's, well, "suboptimal" for this
> task.  So, I went and wrote fstyp(8).
> 
> This utility, named after SVR4 command with same weird name, detects
> filesystems.  It's mostly based on glabel code.  The output is machine
> parseable, it can print out filesystem labels, and runs capsicated.
> 
> You can join the review at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1255.

Will it be possible to run "mount /dev/da$foo" without specifying a file
system type?
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