How do you figure out what your root file system is?

[Charles Hallenbeck]

The df command has a -T option to do that.

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Dawes, Stephen wrote:

> You can look at either fstab or mtab. In both cases, the file system is
> indicated.
> For example my fstab has the following entry.
> /dev/hda2                 /                       ext3    defaults
> 1 1
> The ext3 is the file system. If you are using ext2, then your fstab will
> show ext2 instead of ext3.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Sean McMahon
>> Sent: 2005 May 04 12:07 PM
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>> Subject: How do you figure out what your root file system is?
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>> On my setup, I just have one main harddrive partition and I'd
>> like to see what file system it is using.df -k only tells me
>> the file systems for things like tmp because it is something
>> different.
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