diff --git a/cmd/prometheus/main.go b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
index 2eb038d3f..5529f0dcb 100644
--- a/cmd/prometheus/main.go
+++ b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ func main() {
 				if err != nil {
 					return errors.Wrapf(err, "opening storage failed")
 				}
+				level.Info(logger).Log("fs_type", prom_runtime.Statfs(cfg.localStoragePath))
 				level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "TSDB started")
 				level.Debug(logger).Log("msg", "TSDB options",
 					"MinBlockDuration", cfg.tsdb.MinBlockDuration,
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/statfs.go b/pkg/runtime/statfs.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43b156ea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/runtime/statfs.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// +build openbsd windows netbsd
+
+package runtime
+
+// Statfs returns the file system type (Unix only)
+// syscall.Statfs_t isn't available on openbsd
+func Statfs(path string) string {
+	return "unknown"
+}
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/statfs_default.go b/pkg/runtime/statfs_default.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cbb55a6c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/runtime/statfs_default.go
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// +build !windows,!openbsd,!netbsd
+// +build !386
+
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// Statfs returns the file system type (Unix only)
+func Statfs(path string) string {
+
+	// Types of file systems that may be returned by `statfs`
+	fsTypes := map[int64]string{
+		0xadf5:     "ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xADFF:     "AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x42465331: "BEFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x1BADFACE: "BFS_MAGIC",
+		0xFF534D42: "CIFS_MAGIC_NUMBER",
+		0x73757245: "CODA_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B7: "COH_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x28cd3d45: "CRAMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x1373:     "DEVFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00414A53: "EFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137D:     "EXT_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF51:     "EXT2_OLD_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF53:     "EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x4244:     "HFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xF995E849: "HPFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x958458f6: "HUGETLBFS_MAGIC",
+		0x9660:     "ISOFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x72b6:     "JFFS2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x3153464a: "JFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x138F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x2468:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x2478:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x4d44:     "MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x564c:     "NCP_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x6969:     "NFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x5346544e: "NTFS_SB_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa1:     "OPENPROM_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa0:     "PROC_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x002f:     "QNX4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x52654973: "REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x7275:     "ROMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x517B:     "SMB_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B6: "SYSV2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B5: "SYSV4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x01021994: "TMPFS_MAGIC",
+		0x15013346: "UDF_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00011954: "UFS_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa2:     "USBDEVICE_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xa501FCF5: "VXFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B4: "XENIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x58465342: "XFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FD16D: "_XIAFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+	}
+
+	var fs syscall.Statfs_t
+	err := syscall.Statfs(path, &fs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return strconv.FormatInt(int64(fs.Type), 16)
+	}
+	if fsType, ok := fsTypes[int64(fs.Type)]; ok {
+		return fsType
+	}
+	return strconv.FormatInt(int64(fs.Type), 16)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/statfs_linux_386.go b/pkg/runtime/statfs_linux_386.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0f1bf43cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/runtime/statfs_linux_386.go
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// +build !windows !openbsd !darwin !freebsd !netbsd
+// +build linux,386
+
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// Statfs returns the file system type (Unix only)
+func Statfs(path string) string {
+
+	// Types of file systems that may be returned by `statfs`
+	fsTypes := map[int32]string{
+		0xadf5:     "ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xADFF:     "AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x42465331: "BEFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x1BADFACE: "BFS_MAGIC",
+		0x73757245: "CODA_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B7: "COH_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x28cd3d45: "CRAMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x1373:     "DEVFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00414A53: "EFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137D:     "EXT_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF51:     "EXT2_OLD_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF53:     "EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x4244:     "HFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x9660:     "ISOFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x72b6:     "JFFS2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x3153464a: "JFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x138F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x2468:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x2478:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x4d44:     "MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x564c:     "NCP_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x6969:     "NFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x5346544e: "NTFS_SB_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa1:     "OPENPROM_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa0:     "PROC_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x002f:     "QNX4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x52654973: "REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x7275:     "ROMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x517B:     "SMB_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B6: "SYSV2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B5: "SYSV4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x01021994: "TMPFS_MAGIC",
+		0x15013346: "UDF_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00011954: "UFS_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa2:     "USBDEVICE_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B4: "XENIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x58465342: "XFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FD16D: "_XIAFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+	}
+
+	var fs syscall.Statfs_t
+	err := syscall.Statfs(path, &fs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return strconv.Itoa(int(fs.Type))
+	}
+	if fsType, ok := fsTypes[fs.Type]; ok {
+		return fsType
+	}
+	return strconv.Itoa(int(fs.Type))
+}
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/statfs_uint32.go b/pkg/runtime/statfs_uint32.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1a5557a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/runtime/statfs_uint32.go
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// +build 386,darwin 386,freebsd
+
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// Statfs returns the file system type (Unix only)
+func Statfs(path string) string {
+
+	// Types of file systems that may be returned by `statfs`
+	fsTypes := map[uint32]string{
+		0xadf5:     "ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xADFF:     "AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x42465331: "BEFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x1BADFACE: "BFS_MAGIC",
+		0x73757245: "CODA_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B7: "COH_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x28cd3d45: "CRAMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x1373:     "DEVFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00414A53: "EFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137D:     "EXT_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF51:     "EXT2_OLD_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0xEF53:     "EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x4244:     "HFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x9660:     "ISOFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x72b6:     "JFFS2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x3153464a: "JFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x137F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x138F:     "MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x2468:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x2478:     "MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC2",
+		0x4d44:     "MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x564c:     "NCP_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x6969:     "NFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x5346544e: "NTFS_SB_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa1:     "OPENPROM_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa0:     "PROC_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x002f:     "QNX4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x52654973: "REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x7275:     "ROMFS_MAGIC",
+		0x517B:     "SMB_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B6: "SYSV2_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B5: "SYSV4_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x01021994: "TMPFS_MAGIC",
+		0x15013346: "UDF_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x00011954: "UFS_MAGIC",
+		0x9fa2:     "USBDEVICE_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FF7B4: "XENIX_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x58465342: "XFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+		0x012FD16D: "_XIAFS_SUPER_MAGIC",
+	}
+
+	var fs syscall.Statfs_t
+	err := syscall.Statfs(path, &fs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return strconv.Itoa(int(fs.Type))
+	}
+	if fsType, ok := fsTypes[fs.Type]; ok {
+		return fsType
+	}
+	return strconv.Itoa(int(fs.Type))
+}