diff --git a/src/engine/fsutils.cpp b/src/engine/fsutils.cpp
index 46bb04bd..3f42f7f0 100644
--- a/src/engine/fsutils.cpp
+++ b/src/engine/fsutils.cpp
@@ -1,118 +1,85 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2010 Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org>
  * Copyright (C) 2014 Daniel Vrátil <dvratil@redhat.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2015 Vishesh Handa <vhanda@kde.org>
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  * Library General Public License for more details.
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
  * along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
  * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  *
  */
 
 #include "fsutils.h"
 
 #include <QDebug>
 
 #ifdef Q_OS_LINUX
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
-#include <mntent.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #endif
 
 using namespace Baloo;
 
-QString FSUtils::getDirectoryFileSystem(const QString &directory)
-{
-#ifndef Q_OS_LINUX
-    return QString();
-#else
-    QString bestMatchPath;
-    QString bestMatchFS;
-
-    FILE *mtab = setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r");
-    if (!mtab) {
-        return QString();
-    }
-    while (mntent *mnt = getmntent(mtab)) {
-        if (qstrcmp(mnt->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_IGNORE) == 0) {
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        const QString dir = QString::fromLocal8Bit(mnt->mnt_dir);
-        if (!directory.startsWith(dir) || dir.length() < bestMatchPath.length()) {
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        bestMatchPath = dir;
-        bestMatchFS = QString::fromLocal8Bit(mnt->mnt_type);
-    }
-
-    endmntent(mtab);
-
-    return bestMatchFS;
-#endif
-}
-
 void FSUtils::disableCoW(const QString &path)
 {
 #ifndef Q_OS_LINUX
     Q_UNUSED(path);
 #else
     // from linux/fs.h, so that Baloo does not depend on Linux header files
 #ifndef FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
 #define FS_IOC_GETFLAGS     _IOR('f', 1, long)
 #endif
 #ifndef FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
 #define FS_IOC_SETFLAGS     _IOW('f', 2, long)
 #endif
 
     // Disable COW on file
 #ifndef FS_NOCOW_FL
 #define FS_NOCOW_FL         0x00800000
 #endif
 
     ulong flags = 0;
     const int fd = open(qPrintable(path), O_RDONLY);
     if (fd == -1) {
         qWarning() << "Failed to open" << path << "to modify flags (" << errno << ")";
         return;
     }
 
     if (ioctl(fd, FS_IOC_GETFLAGS, &flags) == -1) {
         const int errno_ioctl = errno;
         // ignore ENOTTY, filesystem does not support attrs (and likely neither supports COW)
         if (errno_ioctl != ENOTTY) {
             qWarning() << "ioctl error: failed to get file flags (" << errno_ioctl << ")";
         }
         close(fd);
         return;
     }
     if (!(flags & FS_NOCOW_FL)) {
         flags |= FS_NOCOW_FL;
         if (ioctl(fd, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, &flags) == -1) {
             const int errno_ioctl = errno;
             // ignore EOPNOTSUPP, returned on filesystems not supporting COW
             if (errno_ioctl != EOPNOTSUPP) {
                 qWarning() << "ioctl error: failed to set file flags (" << errno_ioctl << ")";
             }
             close(fd);
             return;
         }
     }
     close(fd);
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/src/engine/fsutils.h b/src/engine/fsutils.h
index ddd5712d..ae6642dd 100644
--- a/src/engine/fsutils.h
+++ b/src/engine/fsutils.h
@@ -1,47 +1,40 @@
 /*
  * This file is part of the KDE Baloo Project
  * Copyright (C) 2015  Vishesh Handa <me@vhanda.in>
  * Copyright (C) 2010  Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org>
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
  * later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
  * successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
  * act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.
  *
  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  * License along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  *
  */
 
 #ifndef BALOO_ENGINE_FSUTILS_H
 #define BALOO_ENGINE_FSUTILS_H
 
 #include <QString>
 
 namespace Baloo {
 namespace FSUtils {
 
-/**
- * Returns name of filesystem that @p directory is stored on. This
- * only works on Linux and returns empty string on other platforms or when it's
- * unable to detect the filesystem.
- */
-QString getDirectoryFileSystem(const QString &directory);
-
 /**
  * Disables filesystem copy-on-write feature on given file or directory.
  * Only implemented on Linux and does nothing on other platforms.
  */
 void disableCoW(const QString &path);
 
 }
 }
 #endif