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 disktype