[Cialug] mounting filesystem types

Nicolai nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
Tue Apr 26 11:25:05 CDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Is there a way to inventory what filesystem types a given machine supports?

On mine, the bottom of the manual page for mount shows this:

SEE ALSO
     mount(2), fstab(5), disklabel(8), mount_cd9660(8), mount_ext2fs(8),
     mount_ffs(8), mount_mfs(8), mount_msdos(8), mount_nfs(8), mount_nnpfs(8),
     mount_ntfs(8), mount_portal(8), mount_procfs(8), mount_udf(8),
     mount_vnd(8), sysctl(8), umount(8)

> If the tools are on the system to format shouldn't I be able to mount it?

It would be interesting to hear how this plays out... can you mount the
partition, after all?

Nicolai


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