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Gentoo Forensics Project
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.
As of version 7, disktype knows about the following formats. For more detailed information, please see the
documentation.
File systems:
FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
NTFS
HPFS
MFS, HFS, HFS Plus
ISO9660
UDF
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
3DO CD-ROM FS
Veritas VxFS
Partitioning:
DOS/PC style
Apple
Amiga "Rigid Disk"
ATARI ST (AHDI3)
BSD disklabel
Linux RAID physical disks
Linux LVM 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
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