On 2010-03-13, at 13:30, Francis Moreau wrote:
I've some shell scripts which try to find out the filesystem hosted by
a block device.
They basically do this:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
fs=$(stat -f -c %T $mount_point)
umount /mnt
Mounting an in-use filesystem is a bad idea.
You should just use the blkid tool, which wa written specifically for
this purpose. It was previously part of e2fsprogs (installed on 99%
of systems) and in the future (possibly even FC12) it has moved over
to util-linux (on 100% of systems).
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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