Q. How do I find out what filesystems my Linux kernel supports?
A. Linux supports lost of file system or different file systems. This makes is flexible and well able to coexist with many other operating systems. ext2/ext3 are considered as a native Linux file system.
Nevertheless, Linux supports large number of file system. You need to compile the kernel to get support for other file system.
You can easily find out what filesystem running Linux kernel supports with following command:
$ cat /proc/filesystems
Output:
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev futexfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev pipefs
nodev eventpollfs
nodev devpts
cramfs
nodev ramfs
nodev devfs
nodev mqueue
ext3
nodev usbfs
nodev usbdevfs
vfat
Right column indicates filesystem names. Try following command to just print filesystem names:
$ awk '{print $2}' /proc/filesystems | sed '/^$/d'
To get more detailed information about each file system refer to Linux kernel Documentation/filesystems
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