In the last episode (Aug 17), jdyke said: > Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: > >hi there > >I've been looking for a way to check the fs type > >I need to do something like this > > > >if NTFS do this > >if msdis do that > >if ufs2 do that > >if ext2 do this other stuff > > not sure if this is what your looking for, but there are likely a million > ways, one being > > in bash
any bourne shell, actually. > $ fs_to_check=/dev/ad4s1g > $ fstype=`grep $fs_to_check /etc/fstab | awk '{ print $3 }'` > $ echo $fstype > ufs Might be better to use the output of "mount -p" instead of /etc/fstab, since the filesystem may have been automounted or otherwise not in fstab. Unfortunately, mount -p doesn't take an argument to limit the output to just the filessytem listed.. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"