ewfinfo(1)

ewfinfo1

Show meta data stored in ewf files

Usage

ewfinfo [-A codepage] [-d date_format] [-f format] [-ehimvV] ewf_files

Overview

ewfinfo is a utility to show meta data stored in EWF files.

ewfinfo is part of the libewf package. libewf is a library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).

ewf_files the first or the entire set of EWF segment files

The options are as follows:

-A codepage

the codepage of header section, options: ascii (default), windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-d date_format

the date format, options: ctime (default), dm (day/month), md (month/day), iso8601

-e

only show EWF read error information

-f format

specify the output format, options: text (default), dfxml

-h

shows this help

-i

only show EWF acquiry information

-m

only show EWF media information

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

Environment

None

Files

None

Examples

# ewfinfo -d dm floppy.E01
ewfinfo 20120805
Acquiry information
        Case number:            1
        Description:            Floppy
        Examiner name:          John D.
        Evidence number:        1.1
        Notes:                  Just a floppy in my system
        Acquiry date:           09/12/2006 10:00:12
        System date:            09/12/2006 10:00:12
        Operating system used:  Linux
        Software version used:  20061209
        Password:               N/A
EWF information
	File format:		EnCase 5
	Sectors per chunk:	64
	Error granularity:	64
	Compression method:	deflate
	Compression level:	no compression
	Set identifier:		869910fc-e143-4908-9328-afedf4a7be1e
Media information
        Media type:             removable disk
        Is physical:		no
        Bytes per sector:       512
        Number of sectors:      2880
        Media size:             1.4 MiB (1474560 bytes)
Digest hash information
        MD5:                    ae1ce8f5ac079d3ee93f97fe3792bda3

Diagnostics

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0–7
  2. 8–11
  3. 12–Arch

-f since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Bugs

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libewf-legacy/issues

Author

These man pages were written by Kees Mastwijk.

Alterations for distribution have been made by Joachim Metz.

From libewf 20140816-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.