fstyp(ADM)

fstyp -- determine filesystem type

Syntax

/etc/fstyp device

Description

The fstyp command allows the super user to determine the filesystem type of mounted or unmounted filesystems using heuristic programs. The filesystem type is required by mount(S-osr5) and sometimes by mount(ADM) to mount filesystems of different types.

fstyp runs the fstyp programs in each of the directories /etc/fscmd.d/TYPE in alphabetical order, passing the name of the special device file (device) associated with the filesystem as an argument; if any program succeeds, its filesystem type identifier is printed and fstyp exits immediately. If no program succeeds, fstyp prints:

   Unknown_fstyp

to indicate failure.

Examples

To find the filesystem type for the root filesystem:

/etc/fstyp /dev/root

To find the filesystem type for another filesystem; here /dev/u (usually mounted on /u):

/etc/fstyp /dev/u

fstyp(ADM)

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