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8.6.3 fstype

This share-level option sets the type of filesystem that Samba reports when queried by the client. There are three strings that can be used as a value to this configuration option, as listed in Table 8.11.


Table 8.11: Filesystem Types

Variable

Definition

NTFS

Microsoft Windows NT filesystem

FAT

DOS FAT filesystem

Samba

Samba filesystem

The default value for this option is NTFS, which represents a Windows NT filesystem. There probably isn't a need to specify any other type of filesystem. However, if you need to, you can override it per share as follows:


[data]
	fstype = FAT
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