Re: How to determine which filesystems are available

["Kushal Kumaran" <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com>]

On 4/28/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:59:19 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> > On 4/28/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:
> > > I inserted a Mac HFS formatted USB stick, and to my surprise a
> > > window popped up in Gnome, displaying its contents.
> > > Debian handles the HFS filesystem by default??
> > >
> > > Which makes me wonder, how I could determine which filesystems are
> > > available. Are HFS+ and UFS supported?
> > > Or, to put it more precisely: support for which filesystems is
> > > compiled into the kernel.
> >
> > Try /proc/filesystems.  See the manpage for proc(5).  For more info on
> > the running kernel, take a look at /proc/config.gz
>
> Here's the contents of /proc/filesystems (Etch).
> Odd enough, HFS is not listed, despite the fact that it appears to be
> functioning. ???
>
> $ cat /proc/filesystems
> <snip contents not containing hfs>

It appears to show only those filesystems that are supported by loaded
modules or that are built into the kernel.  You can look into the
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/ directory to see what filesystem
modules are available.

--
Kushal