FSTYP(8)

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💅 fstyp(8) — identify a file system 💅

okay so bestie, real talk: this page comes from the System Manager's Manual, and it's all about figuring out what kind of volume is living on a device. lowkey detective energy. 🕵️‍♀️✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

fstyp — identify a file system

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fstyp device

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

The fstyp utility attempts to determine what sort of volume is present on the given device. it's giving "what are you, bestie?" but for disks. 💖

How does it do this? iconic behavior: it operates by iterating over directories that are typically part of the path, searching for files matching the pattern fstyp_*, and running them. it's literally out here running little helper files until something matches. 🎀

If it finds a match, it will print out the file system type name and exit with a return value of 1. yup, 1 — that's the match vibe. 👑

If it does not find a match, it will not print out anything, and the return value will be 0. silent. mysterious. no notes. 💀

lowkey important: match = it prints the file system type name + return value 1; no match = it prints nothing + return value 0. that's the whole vibe check, periodt. 🫶

mwah 💋 this lil icon is from Debian, dated August 15, 2005, and it's the FSTYP(8) page in the System Manager's Manual. slay and goodbye. 🦋✨

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