On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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?
Or just vol_id -t? (Debian's udev installs this in /lib/udev, but hey.) There's also /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype. Do we need yet another tool that needs to be kept up to date when new filesystems appear? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
