fstyp(ADM)                      19 June 1992                      fstyp(ADM)


 Name

    fstyp - determine file system identifier

 Syntax

    /etc/fstyp device

 Description

    The fstyp command allows the user to determine the file system identifier
    of mounted or unmounted file systems using heuristic programs. The file
    system type is required by mount(S) and sometimes by mount(ADM) to mount
    file systems of different types.

    fstyp runs the programs in /etc/fscmd.d/TYPE in alphabetical order, pass-
    ing device as an argument; if any program succeeds, its filesystem type
    identifier is printed and fstyp exits immediately. If no program
    succeeds, fstyp prints

       Unknown_fstyp

    to indicate failure.

 See also

    mount(ADM), mount(S), sysfs(S)