filesystem type

vikee has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello, how can i get the type of the filesystem?
on both unix and win. 
like fat32, ntfs, ext2,3, mvfs...

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Re: filesystem type by Tomte (Priest) on Jun 21, 2004 at 15:57 UTC
On windows: `Win32::FsType()`, on unix parse the output of `mount -n`, under linux my @result = (); foreach (split("\n",`mount -n`)) { push @result, (split)[0,4]; } my %result = @result; [download] will put the filesystem as value of the key "mountpoint" in the hash `%result`; regards, tomte An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: filesystem type by Eyck (Priest) on Jun 17, 2005 at 08:09 UTC
mount -n will know only about supported filessytems, you can try `file -s /dev/device`, `pokurcz:# file -s /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean) pokurcz:# file -s /dev/hda2 /dev/hda2: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 124502 p +ages` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: filesystem type by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Jun 21, 2004 at 16:40 UTC
Maybe there's a case for a module here. One that will do the right thing on each platform. How about: `use File::System qw(fstype); ... my $fstype = fstype($filnam);` [download] Maybe it could do other things, like capacity, freespace. -- I'm Not Just Another Perl Hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: filesystem type by vikee (Sexton) on Jun 23, 2004 at 07:11 UTC
hello error : can't locate System....	[reply]
Re: filesystem type by arthas (Hermit) on Jun 21, 2004 at 15:47 UTC
Hi! On Unix you can parse the output of df. I'm unsure about Windows - I don't use it - but I think chkdsk shows you the filesystem type of mounted disks, so you can parse that. Hope this helps. Michele.	[reply]
Re^2: filesystem type by vikee (Sexton) on Jun 22, 2004 at 08:54 UTC
chkdsk no cause it starts to check the HDD...	[reply]

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