NAME

Filesys::Type - Portable way of determining the type of a file system.

SYNOPSIS

use Filesys::Type qw(fstype);

      ...
      my $fs = '/mnt/hda7';
      warn "Not able to share with Windows"
         if (fstype($fs) ne 'vfat');

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a portable interface, either to Unix mount -n or to Win32::filesys or to another native OS interface.

The module is pluggable, which will allow for other operating systems to be added in future without needing to change the core module.

fstype
This exportable function takes a string, which is a file or directory path, and returns the file system type, e.g. vfat, ntfs, ext2, etc. Note that the exact string returned is operating system dependent.

case
This is another exportable function that takes a path as input, and returns one of the following:

"sensitive"

like Unix ext2, ext3, etc.

"lower"

        VMS ODS-2 filenames are case insensitive. System services return the
        names in upper case, but the CRTL which provides globbing and the
        command line interface turns to lower case.

"insensitive"

        This is the behaviour of Windows file systems, FAT16, FAT32 and
        NTFS. The file names are case insensitive, i.e. foo, Foo and FOO
        refer to the same file, but the initial case of the letters of the
        file name is preserved from the time it was created.

INSTALLATION

This uses a standard CPAN install:

            perl Makefile.PL
            make
            make test
            make install

replace make with nmake for Windows

BUGS

        Please report bugs to http://rt.cpan.org. Post to
        bug-filesys-type@rt.cpan.org

HISTORY

        0.01 Sun Jun 12 2005 - original version; created by
        ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.32

AUTHOR

                I. Williams
                ivorw@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the same terms as Perl itself.

        The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file
        included with this module.

SEE ALSO

Win32.