Python is at the whim of the services the OS provides. Maybe you should ask in a linux-related newsgroup or mailing list, they might know more about the specifics of both detecting and working around "weird" filesystems like "fat".
To find the type of a filesystem, Linux provides the statfs(2) function, but no built-in Python module includes access to that function. Writing the wrapper would be an easy first exercise in extending Python, or using Pyrex or ctypes. The filesystem "magic numbers" also aren't available in Python. A partial list can be found by "grep _SUPER_MAGIC /usr/include/linux/*" Jeff
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