Hi Ed,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:40:22AM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to build a small initramfs where I need to mount a
> potentially unknown filesystem partition. I would like to know the
> filesystem type on that partition ahead of time so that I can sometimes
> set particular mount options
>
> On a non busybox system I can use blkid to detect "TYPE" (in fact seems
> to also work on loopback type files). Any thoughts on how I might do
> this using only busybox tools (or simple derivations)?
>
> (One option seems to be to mount the filesystem, read the type, umount
> and remount if needed - however, seems somewhat slow and clunky..?
> Especially for journalled filesystems...)
>
> Any suggestions?
Doesn't the Busybox blkid applet work for you?
baruch
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