Information Technology Reference
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Viewing file systems on an Android device
The file systems supported by the Android kernel can be determined by checking the con-
tents of the file
filesystems
in the
proc
folder. The content of this file can be viewed
by using the following command:
shell@Android:/ $ cat /proc/filesystems
cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev cgroup
nodev tmpfs
nodev binfmt_misc
nodev debugfs
nodev sockfs
nodev usbfs
nodev pipefs
nodev anon_inodefs
nodev devpts
ext2
ext3
ext4
nodev ramfs
vfat
msdos
nodev ecryptfs
nodev fuse
fuseblk
nodev fusectl
exfat
In the preceding output, the first column tells us whether the file system is mounted on the
device. The ones with the
nodev
property are not mounted on the device. The second
column lists all the file systems present on the device. A simple mount command displays
different partitions available on the device, as follows:
