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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: finding the filesystem of a file
Keywords: filesystem search find file
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:42:23 GMT
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>Also, on SVR4 systems, [I know this doesn't help you Dave, just throwing
>out some additional things] you can use the statvfs() call.
>	int statvfs(char *path, struct statvfs *buf);
>The field buf->f_fstr will give the filesystem name.

Assuming that's what the particular file system type puts there.  The
manual page describes it as a "file-system specific string", so a file
system type could put a string giving its author's birthday there if it
chooses to....