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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout

Terminal - currently mounted filesystems in nice layout
mount | column -t
2009-03-20 14:18:56
User: thechile
Functions: column mount
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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout

Particularly useful if you're mounting different drives, using the following command will allow you to see all the filesystems currently mounted on your computer and their respective specs with the added benefit of nice formatting.

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column -t /proc/mounts
2009-08-09 17:00:41
User: unixmonkey5049
Functions: column
Tags: Filesystem mount column
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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout

since fuse mounts do not appear in /etc/mtab (fuse can't write there, dunno if it would if it could) this is propably a better way.

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Nice indeed. But some issues when there is whitespaces in mount point.

Comment by CodSpirit 75 weeks and 6 days ago

Ye flipping gods! How did I go twenty years in *nix without finding out about column?

Comment by TheMightyBuzzard 75 weeks and 6 days ago

That's what I'm talking about. These sort of commands are what make this site shine. Very nice.

Comment by atoponce 75 weeks and 5 days ago

to TheMightyBuzzard : I've found "cd -" and this "columnt -t" today - 18 years of *nix :-)

Comment by vleolml 68 weeks and 2 days ago

So Coooooooooooooool !!!

Comment by unixmonkey5001 56 weeks ago

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