ncpfs is a network filesystem that supports the NCP protocol, used by Novell NetWare.

devpts--is a pseudo file system, traditionally mounted on /dev/pts. In order to acquire a pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>.

fat --is not a separate filesystem, but a common part of the msdos, umsdos and vfat filesystems.

UFS --is a file system widely used in different operating systems.

swap--is a special partition type used for swapping data from memory to hard drive.

raiserfs--is a brand new journaling filesystem available as standard with Linux kernel version 2.4.1 up (January 2001).

hfs (=hierarchical files system)--MacIntosh filesystem. It is a late beta version., i.e., not recommended for use with critical data, unless read-only.

ntfs--MS Windows NT filesytem. It is still "experimental" under Linux, i.e. not recommeded for production machines, unless read-only (Aug.2001).