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VSGPTINFO(1) General Commands Manual VSGPTINFO(1)

NAME

vsgptinfodetermines information about a GUID Partition Table (GPT) volume system

SYNOPSIS

vsgptinfo [-hvV] source

DESCRIPTION

vsgptinfo is a utility to determine information about a GUID Partition Table (GPT) volume system

vsgptinfo is part of the libvsgpt package. libvsgpt is a library to access the GUID Partition Table (GPT) volume system format

source is the source image.

The options are as follows:

shows this help
verbose output to stderr
print version

ENVIRONMENT

None

FILES

None

EXAMPLES

# vsgptinfo /dev/sda
vsgptinfo 20260626

GUID Partition Table (GPT) information:
	Disk identifier		: 2d522f96-53ad-4b0b-9271-689a8775f9a0
	Bytes per sector	: 512
	Number of partitions	: 1

Partition: 1
	Identifier		: f2f05925-ed66-427b-83f3-db2679ff29f1
	Type identifier		: 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
	Type			: 0x00 (Empty)
	Offset			: 1048576 (0x00100000)
	Size			: 65536

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/libvsgpt/issues

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2019-2026, 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