The purpose of
is to detect the content format of a disk or
disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and
boot codes.
USAGE
can be run with any number of regular files or
device special files as arguments. They will be analyzed in the order
given, and the results printed to standard output. There are no
switches in this version. Note that running disktype on device files
like your hard disk will likely require root rights.
See the online documentation at <http://disktype.sourceforge.net/doc/>
for some example command lines.
RECOGNIZED FORMATS
The following formats are recognized by this version of
FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, MFS, HFS, HFS Plus,
ISO9660, ext2/ext3, Minix, ReiserFS, Linux romfs, Linux cramfs,
Linux squashfs, UFS (some variations), SysV FS (some variations),
JFS, XFS, Amiga FS/FFS, BeOS BFS, QNX4 FS, UDF, 3DO CD-ROM file
system, Veritas VxFS.
DOS/PC style, Apple, Amiga "Rigid Disk", ATARI ST (AHDI3),
BSD disklabel, Linux RAID physical disks, Linux LVM physical volumes,
Solaris x86 disklabel (vtoc), Solaris SPARC disklabel.
Debian split floppy header, Linux swap.
Raw CD image (.bin), Virtual PC hard disk image,
Apple UDIF disk image (limited).
LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, Linux kernel, FreeBSD loader,
Sega Dreamcast (?).
gzip, compress, bzip2.
tar, cpio, bar, dump/restore.
Compressed files (gzip, compress, bzip2 formats) will also have their
contents analyzed using transparent decompression. The appropriate
compression program must be installed on the system, i.e.
for the gzip and compress formats,
for the bzip2 format.
Disk images in general will also have their contents analyzed using
the proper mapping, with the exception of the Apple UDIF format.
See the online documentation at <http://disktype.sourceforge.net/doc/>
for more details on the supported formats and their quirks.
HOMEPAGE
http://disktype.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Christoph Pfisterer <chrisp@users.sourceforge.net>
