[Cialug] mounting filesystem types

[Nathan C. Smith]

After reviewing /proc/filesystems it appeared the machine did not have support for ext4.  I'm reformatting as EXT3.  No big deal.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nicolai
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:25 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] mounting filesystem types

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Is there a way to inventory what filesystem types a given machine supports?

On mine, the bottom of the manual page for mount shows this:

SEE ALSO
     mount(2), fstab(5), disklabel(8), mount_cd9660(8), mount_ext2fs(8),
     mount_ffs(8), mount_mfs(8), mount_msdos(8), mount_nfs(8), mount_nnpfs(8),
     mount_ntfs(8), mount_portal(8), mount_procfs(8), mount_udf(8),
     mount_vnd(8), sysctl(8), umount(8)

> If the tools are on the system to format shouldn't I be able to mount it?

It would be interesting to hear how this plays out... can you mount the partition, after all?

Nicolai
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