Next time could you start a new thread instead of replying to an existing one? Right now you're fscking up the threading, this is how it looks like in a Real Mailer that does understand threading (aka mutt): 257 Feb 20 Rahul Iyer ( 21) Page Replacement in 2.6.10 258 Feb 21 A.M. Fradley ( 39) +*> 259 N Feb 21 Sabarinathan ( 13) +->How to Calculate File System Type For an explanation, see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/mletiquette.php#e2 On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:55:36PM +0530, Sabarinathan wrote: > How to find out the file system types (ext2, fat and etc) using /proc file > system, Proc file system already gave the partition information and mounted > file systems but it is not given the file system type, please anybody tell > me how to check the file system type of harddisk partitions using /proc. /proc/mounts tells you the filesystem type of a mounted partition: erik@arthur:~ >cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 The only way to figure out what kind of filesystem a non-mounted partition contains, is to find for clues on that partition. That's exactly what the "mount" program does when you don't tell it the filesystem type (i.e.: when you omit the "-t" flag). Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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