Re: How to determine which filesystems are available
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:13:47 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> 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.
Very interesting.
It appears that the recognition of HFS volumes, as I described it, is
a feature of Gnome only. In KDE it bumps into errors and in window
managers it does not work at all.
So I prefer to forget about Gnome and do it the way you mention here:
modprobe hfs
Then I can mount the HFS formatted USB stick the usual way:
mkdir /media/whatever
mount /dev/sda2 /media/whatever
Now it works everywhere without errors.
Thanks a lot!
--
S.H.
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