File System

[James Wilkinson]

Ali Helmy wrote:
> Quick Question: How can I get to know which file system is currently
> running on a partition?

Andy Green wrote:
> mount is the best way...

mount should get all physical partitions, but won't get everything
that's actually mounted (at least on a standard FC4 system). Compare the
output of mount with the contents of /proc/mounts.

This is largely due to such things as initrds, and union mounts, and it
being a while before /etc is mounted and writable, and there actually
being a number of filesystems mounted by that time, and mount using
/etc/mtab. And the filesystems you don't get in mtab aren't ones that
people tend to be interested in.

There's a section in man mount on this, too.

James.

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