fstyp_hfs(8)

fstyp_hfs8

Check for an hfs volume

Usage

fstyp_hfs device

Overview

The fstyp_hfs utility is not intended to be run directly, but rather called by fstyp(8) while it is trying to determine which file system type is present on the given device. It returns 1 if it thinks the device contains an HFS volume, and 0 otherwise.

Releases

Unchanged in 115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5.

  1. 10.5–26.5

From hfs 715.120.4 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.