Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:38:45 -0700
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> I was thinking of doing something like that.  You can basically
> get the same info by doing something like:
> file - < /dev/ad0s1e
> /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian)
> file - < /dev/ad0s4
> /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem
> 
> I leaned away from this approach in mount(8) because:
> - I didn't want to tie mount(8) to file(1)

Why not?  We have libmagic for purposes like this.

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