NAME¶

vsapminfo — determines information about an Apple Partition Map (APM) volume system

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

vsapminfo is a utility to determine information about an Apple Partition Map (APM) volume system

vsapminfo is part of the libvsapm package. libvsapm is a library to access the Apple Partition Map (APM) volume system format

source is the source image.

The options are as follows:

-b bytes_per_sector

specify the number of bytes per sector (default is 512). Use this to override the automatic bytes per sector detection

-h

shows this help

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# vsapminfo /dev/sda
vsapminfo 20260626

Apple Partition Map (APM) information:
	Bytes per sector	: 512
	Number of partitions	: 2

Partition: 1
	Type			: Apple_HFS
	Name			: Foo
	Offset			: 33792 (0x00008400)
	Size			: 228352
	Status flags		: 0x0000007f
		Is valid
		Is allocated
		Is in use
		Contains boot information
		Is readable
		Is writeable
		Boot code is position independent

Partition: 2
	Type			: Apple_Free
	Name			: Extra
	Offset			: 32768 (0x00008000)
	Size			: 1024
	Status flags		: 0x00000000

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.

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

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