Martin Schulze wrote: > please consider adding <http://www.mkp.net/fstyp/> alias > fstyp - identify filesystem > to the morutils package.
file(1) can also detect many filesystems. The only real problem is parsing the filesystem type out of the other output if using it programatically: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>file debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso foo debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'Debian testing i386 Bin-1 ' (bootable) foo: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data The --mime option almost, but not quite works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>file --mime debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso foo debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso: application/x-iso9660 foo: application/octet-stream This seems to just be a limitation of /usr/share/file/magic.mime for not listing mime types for all the filesystems. Perhaps it would be better to fix that than to introduce a new tool? Alternatively, a specialised magic file could be written that only had the magic numbers for filesystems, and only output the machine-readable filesystem type. -- see shy jo
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