intro(5)

intro5

Introduction to file formats and filesystems

Overview

Section 5 of the manual describes various file formats, as well as the corresponding C structures, if any.

In addition, this section contains a number of pages that document various filesystems.

Notes

Authors and copyright conditions

Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0–3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.