Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:28:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jdyke@azimainc.com Subject: Re: how to know the file system type [programming] Message-ID: <20050817202824.GB60291@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050817202518.64656.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <43039A20.7030803@azimainc.com> <20050817202518.64656.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 17), Jorge Mario G. Mazo said: > --- jdyke <jdyke@azimainc.com> escribió: > > Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: > > > hi there > > > I've been looking for a way to check the fs type > > > I need to do something like this > > > > > > if NTFS do this > > > if msdis do that > > > if ufs2 do that > > > if ext2 do this other stuff > > it has to be pure C and parsing the fstab in C is not an option! also > what about if the partition is not in fstab? You didn't say anything about needing it in C :) The answer is much easier then; just call statfs() and look at the f_fstypename field. See the statfs manpage for more details. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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