How to find out what filesystems my Linux kernel supports ?

[Shane Melson]

Linux supports different file systems. The ext2/ext3 are considered as a native Linux file system.

Along with those, 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


Right side column indicates filesystem names. You can use following command to just print filesystem names:

# awk '{print $2}' /proc/filesystems | sed '/^$/d'