The Bootable CD supports all of the available Linux file systems, however, for some of these file systems, you might have to do special commands. The easiest way to cover these is by asking for help with the mount command:
man mount
In some cases, file systems are not loaded when you try to mount them. In this case, you might try:
insmod [fstype]
Where fstype is the type of the filesystem you are trying to mount. Check with tha manual entry above for which file system you are looking for. Here is a complete example mounting an image of an HFS (MacIntosh) file system stored in an image file using the loopback filesystem interface:
insmod hfs mount -t hfs /home/diskimage /mnt/tmp -o loop
A list of current file systems can be found in linux/fs/filesystems.c and the current list as of this writing is, approximately:
| Name | Details |
|---|---|
| adfs | Acorn Disc File System |
| affs | Amiga fast filesystem |
| autofs | Automatically select the file system |
| BeFS | BeOS filesystem |
| BFS | UnixWare Boot Filesystem |
| coda | distributed filesystem with features like disconnected operation and server replication |
| coherent | Coherent is a version of Unix |
| CrosStor | new name for High throughput filesystem (HTFS) |
| devpts | Filesystem used for device entries |
| dtfs | Desktop filesystem |
| efs | Enhanced filesystem (Linux) |
| efs | Extent filesystem (IRIX) |
| ext | ext is the earlier version of the ext2 file system |
| ext2 | the current most common Linux file system |
| ext2 | another current most common Linux file system |
| FFS | BSD Fast filesystem |
| GPFS | General Parallel Filesystem |
| hfs | The MacIntosh file system |
| hfs | The HP-UX Filesystem |
| hpfs | High Performance File System - use predominantly by OS/2 |
| iso9660 | CD ROMs use this filesystem |
| JFS | Journaled filesystem (HP-UX, AIX, OS/2 5, Linux) |
| LFS | Linux log structured filesystem |
| minix | Minix is a small version of Unix |
| msdos | MSDOS hard disk file system |
| ncpfs | Netware File System |
| nfs | Network file system - used over networks |
| nss | Novell Storage Services |
| ntfs | Microsoft Windows NT file system |
| nwfs | NetWare File System |
| ODS | On Disk Structure filesystem |
| proc | The filesystem used for tracking processes in Linux |
| qnx4 | The filesystem is used in QNX |
| resiserfs | A journaled filesystem based on binary trees - used by default in the Bootable CD |
| rfs | The file system used on many CD-ROMs |
| romfs | The file system used on many ROMs |
| SFS | Secure filesystem |
| smbfs | Samba file system - used for Windows file sharing |
| sysv | System V Unix file system |
| udf | Universal Disk Format (DVD-ROM filesystem) |
| ufs | A filesystem for 44bsd, sun, sunx86, nextstep, and openstep |
| umsdos | Another MSDOS file system |
| vfat | A File Allocaiton Table filesystem uised by DOS floppies |
| v7 | The V7 Filesystem was used in Seventh Edition of UNIX |
| xenix | Xenix is another version of unix - this is its filesystem |
| VxFS | Veritas filesystem (HP-UX, SCO UnixWare, Solaris) |
| XFS | Extended filesystem (IRIX) |
| xiafs | This filesystem was developed to replace old Minix filesystem in Linux |