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30.Dd April 26, 2017
31.Dt FSTYP 8
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm fstyp
35.Nd determine filesystem type
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl l
39.Op Fl s
40.Op Fl u
41.Ar special
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility is used to determine the filesystem type on a given device.
46It can recognize ISO-9660, exFAT, Ext2, FAT, NTFS, and UFS filesystems.
47When the
48.Fl u
49flag is specified,
50.Nm
51also recognizes certain additional metadata formats that cannot be
52handled using
53.Xr mount 8 ,
54such as
55.Xr geli 8
56providers, and
57ZFS pools.
58.Pp
59The filesystem name is printed to the standard output
60as, respectively:
61.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
62.It
63cd9660
64.It
65exfat
66.It
67ext2fs
68.It
69geli
70.It
71msdosfs
72.It
73ntfs
74.It
75ufs
76.It
77zfs
78.El
79.Pp
80Because
81.Nm
82is built specifically to detect filesystem types, it differs from
83.Xr file 1
84in several ways.
85The output is machine-parsable, filesystem labels are supported,
86the utility runs sandboxed using
87.Xr capsicum 4 ,
88and does not try to recognize any file format other than filesystems.
89.Pp
90These options are available:
91.Bl -tag -width ".Fl l"
92.It Fl l
93In addition to filesystem type, print filesystem label if available.
94.It Fl s
95Ignore file type.
96By default,
97.Nm
98only works on regular files and disk-like device nodes.
99Trying to read other file types might have unexpected consequences or hang
100indefinitely.
101.It Fl u
102Include filesystems and devices that cannot be mounted directly by
103.Xr mount 8 .
104.El
105.Sh EXIT STATUS
106The
107.Nm
108utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs or the filesystem
109type is not recognized.
110.Sh SEE ALSO
111.Xr file 1 ,
112.Xr capsicum 4 ,
113.Xr autofs 5 ,
114.Xr geli 8 ,
115.Xr glabel 8 ,
116.Xr mount 8 ,
117.Xr zpool 8
118.Sh HISTORY
119The
120.Nm
121command appeared in
122.Fx 10.2 .
123.Sh AUTHORS
124.An -nosplit
125The
126.Nm
127utility was developed by
128.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org
129under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.
130ZFS and GELI support was added by
131.An Allan Jude Aq Mt allanjude@FreeBSD.org .
132