Hi All,

When I plug in my External Firewire drive and run 'df -Tah' I get the following:

jwhite@Rivendell:/> df -Tah
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 reiserfs 6.9G 3.2G 3.8G 46% /
proc proc 0 0 0 - /proc
tmpfs tmpfs 1013M 28K 1013M 1% /dev/shm
devpts devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/sda1 reiserfs 126M 42M 84M 34% /boot
/dev/sdb1 reiserfs 35G 33M 35G 1% /data
/dev/sda3 reiserfs 26G 3.8G 23G 15% /usr
/dev/hdc subfs 0.0K 0.0K 0.0K - /media/cdrom
/dev/fd0 subfs 0.0K 0.0K 0.0K - /media/floppy
none binfmt_misc 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
/dev/sdc1 subfs 0.0K 0.0K 0.0K - /media/ieee1394-00d04b4b14076a36-0-0p1
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The last entry is the Firewire drive and it's filesystem type is subfs, how do tell what the real filesystem is. I believe the drive is formatted fat32, but subfs is not that informative.

Thanks,

Joe

It's vfat, since you have no clue either way and are writing to it.

Yea, ok. Could it be something else, Linux reads about 30 filesystems.

My point was how can I tell.

Thanks,

Maybe you can tell by the loaded modules (used by subfs) with lsmod. Another option would be to look at the partition type with fdisk -l (at least you can distinguish Linux from Windows). Since I don't use subfs, I am not sure if /etc/mtab might show the 'true' filesystem.

You can still mount the drive manuall to a different mount point then run df-Th and llok at the output. Then if you want, you can unmount it and still have access to the auto mountpoint.