fstyp

 

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 Maintenance Commands                                    fstyp(1M)
 
 
 


NAME
      fstyp - determine file system type
 


SYNOPSIS
      fstyp [ -v ]  special
 


DESCRIPTION
      fstyp allows the user to determine the file system  type  of
      unmounted file systems using heuristic programs.
 
      An  fstyp module for each file system type to be checked  is
      executed;   each  of  these  modules  applies an appropriate
      heuristic to determine whether the supplied  special file is
      of  the  type  for  which  it  checks. If it is, the program
      prints on standard output the usual file  system  identifier
      for that type (for example, ``ufs'') and exits with a return
      code of  0; if none of the modules succeed, the  error  mes-
      sage   unknown_fstyp  (no  matches) is returned and the exit
      status is  1. If more than one module  succeeds,  the  error
      message unknown_fstyp (multiple matches) is returned and the
      exit status is  2.
 


OPTIONS
      -v    Produce verbose output. This  is  usually  information
            about  the  file  systems superblock and varies across
            different FSTypes. See   fs_ufs(4), mkfs_ufs(1M),  and
            tunefs(1M) for details.
 
 USAGE
      See largefile(5) for the  description  of  the  behavior  of
      fstyp  when  encountering  files  greater than or equal to 2
      Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
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     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      mkfs_ufs(1M), tunefs(1M), fs_ufs(4),  attributes(5),  large-
      file(5),  hsfs(7FS), pcfs(7FS)
 


NOTES
      The use of heuristics implies that the result of   fstyp  is
      not guaranteed to be accurate.
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8            Last change: 8 Apr 1997                    1
 
 
 

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