disktype 9 review

disktype's purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image

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disktype's purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.

The program is written in C and is designed to compile on any modern Unix flavour1. It is self-contained and in general works without special libraries or headers. Some system-dependent features can be used to gather additional information.

As of version 8, disktype knows about the following formats:

File systems:

FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
NTFS
HPFS
MFS, HFS, HFS Plus
ISO9660
UDF
ext2/ext3
Minix
ReiserFS
Reiser4
Linux romfs
Linux cramfs
Linux squashfs
UFS (some variations)
SysV FS (some variations)
JFS
XFS
Amiga FS/FFS
BeOS BFS
QNX4 FS
3DO CD-ROM FS
Veritas VxFS
Xbox DVD file system

Partitioning:

DOS/PC style
Apple
Amiga "Rigid Disk"
ATARI ST (AHDI3)
BSD disklabel
Linux RAID physical disks
Linux LVM1 physical volumes
Linux LVM2 physical volumes
Solaris SPARC disklabel
Solaris x86 disklabel (vtoc)

Other structures:

Debian split floppy header
Linux swap

Disk images:

Raw CD image (.bin)
Virtual PC hard disk image
Apple UDIF disk image (limited)

Boot codes:

LILO
GRUB
SYSLINUX
ISOLINUX
Linux kernel
FreeBSD loader
Sega Dreamcast (?)

Compression formats:

gzip
compress
bzip2

Archive formats:

tar
cpio
bar
dump/restore

What's New in This Release:
Added file systems: Amiga SFS.
Added other structures: Linux cloop (detection only), EFI GPT, Windows/MS-DOS boot loader, BeOS boot loader.
Improved file systems: Amiga FS/FFS, Amiga PFS, Linux squashfs.
Improved other structures: Amiga "Rigid Disk" partitioning, LILO, ISO9660 El Torito.