* Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> [2004:01:19:02:39:14+0000] scribed: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:00:51 -0500, Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:28 -0700, Doug Holland wrote: > > > >> Run mount at the command line, with no arguments, and it'll tell you which > >> filesystems are mounted with which fs types. > >> > >> I'm not sure how to tell which mode an ext3 partition is using, though I think > >> running fsck may tell you. > > > > Running "mount", as you suggest, will tell you with which options the FS > > was mounted, including the journaling mode. > > It just seems to echo what is in /etc/fstab. I wanted something which > actually went and checked the partitions. <snip /> If you want to know what the running OS is using, look to /proc : cat /proc/self/mounts If that still tells you `ext3/ext2', then I suspect that the kernel and the filesystem have some kind of (code) agreement to dynamically negotiate -- but, that is only a guess ;> hth -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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