disktype
detection of content format of a disk or disk image
Install
- All systems
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curl cmd.cat/disktype.sh
- Debian
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apt-get install disktype - Ubuntu
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apt-get install disktype - Kali Linux
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apt-get install disktype - Fedora
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dnf install disktype - Windows (WSL2)
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sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install disktype - OS X
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brew install disktype - Raspbian
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apt-get install disktype - Dockerfile
- dockerfile.run/disktype
disktype
detection of content format of a disk or disk image
The 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. This software can be used for forensics analysis. As of version 9, disktype knows about the following formats: File systems: FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 NTFS HPFS MFS, HFS, HFS Plus ISO9660 (incl. Joliet, El Torito) UDF ext2/ext3 ext4 (patch from upstream CVS) btrfs (patch from upstream CVS) Minix ReiserFS Reiser4 Linux romfs Linux cramfs Linux squashfs UFS (some variations) SysV FS (some variations) JFS XFS Amiga FS/FFS Amiga SFS Amiga PFS BeOS BFS QNX4 FS 3DO CD-ROM FS Veritas VxFS Xbox DVD file system Partitioning: DOS/PC style EFI GPT 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) Linux cloop (limited) Boot loaders: LILO GRUB SYSLINUX ISOLINUX Linux kernel FreeBSD loader Windows/MS-DOS loader BeOS loader, Haiku loader Sega Dreamcast Compression formats: gzip compress bzip2 Archive formats: tar cpio bar dump/restore