NAME¶

fsapfsinfo — determines information about an Apple File System (APFS) container

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

fsapfsinfo is a utility to determine information about an Apple File System (APFS) container

fsapfsinfo is part of the libfsapfs package. libfsapfs is a library to access the Apple File System (APFS) format

source is the source container.

The options are as follows:

-B bodyfile

output file system information as a bodyfile

-d

calculate a MD5 hash of a file entry to include in the bodyfile

-E identifier

show information about a specific file entry identifier or "all"

-f file_system_index

show information about a specific file system or "all"

-F path

show information about a specific file entry path

-h

shows this help

-H

shows the file system hierarchy

-o offset

specify the container offset in bytes

-p password

specify the password (or passphrase)

-r recovery_password

specify the recovery password (or passphrase)

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# fsapfsinfo -o 20480 image.dmg
fsapfsinfo 20260626

Apple File System (APFS) information:

Container information:
        Identifier                      : d08a9fa0-d5a5-458b-813e-ebf9bf5d5338
        Number of volumes               : 1

Volume: 1 information:
        Identifier                      : 458ed10d-8ac3-4af1-8dfd-3954d151a3f3
        Name                            : apfs_test
        Compatible features             : 0x00000002
                (NX_FEATURE_LCFD)

        Incompatible features           : 0x00000001
                (NX_INCOMPAT_VERSION1)

        Read-only compatible features   : 0x00000000

        Number of snapshots             : 0

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.

SEE ALSO¶

fsapfsmount(1)

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

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

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2018-2026, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.