in reply to filesystem type

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;

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will put the filesystem as value of the key "mountpoint" in the hash %result;

regards,
tomte

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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
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