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FSHFSINFO(1) General Commands Manual FSHFSINFO(1)

NAME

fshfsinfodetermines information about a Hierarchical File System (HFS) volume

SYNOPSIS

fshfsinfo [-B bodyfile] [-E identifier] [-F path] [-o offset] [-dhHvV] source

DESCRIPTION

fshfsinfo is a utility to determine information about a Hierarchical File System (HFS) volume

fshfsinfo is part of the libfshfs package. libfshfs is a library to access the Hierarchical File System (HFS) format

source is the source volume.

The options are as follows:

bodyfile
output file system information as a bodyfile
calculate a MD5 hash of a file entry to include in the bodyfile
identifier
show information about a specific file system identifier or "all"
path
show information about a specific file entry path
shows this help
shows the file system hierarchy
offset
specify the volume offset in bytes
verbose output to stderr
print version

ENVIRONMENT

None

FILES

None

EXAMPLES

# fshfsinfo hfsplus.raw
fshfsinfo 20260626

Hierarchical File System information:

Volume information:
        Name                            : hfsplus_test

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

fshfsmount(1)

AUTHORS

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2026, 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.

June 26, 2026 Linux 6.12.0-160000.37-default