Chapter 3. Recognized Formats
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Chapter 3. Recognized Formats

Table of Contents

3.1. Amiga
3.1.1. The Amiga File System
3.1.2. The Professional File System
3.1.3. The Rigid Disk Partitioning Scheme
3.2. Apple Macintosh
3.2.1. The Macintosh File System (MFS)
3.2.2. The Hierarchical File System (HFS)
3.2.3. The HFS Plus File System
3.2.4. The Apple Partitioning Scheme
3.3. ATARI ST
3.3.1. The GEMDOS File System
3.3.2. The ATARI ST (AHDI) Partitioning Scheme
3.4. General PC Formats
3.4.1. PC-style Partition Tables
3.4.2. EFI GPT Partition Table
3.5. Linux File Systems
3.5.1. ext2 and ext3
3.5.2. ReiserFS
3.5.3. Reiser4
3.5.4. Minix
3.5.5. romfs
3.5.6. cramfs
3.5.7. squashfs
3.6. Other Linux Formats
3.6.1. Linux Swap
3.6.2. Linux LVM Physical Volumes
3.6.3. Linux RAID Physical Disks
3.6.4. Debian Split Floppy
3.7. Microsoft
3.7.1. FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32
3.7.2. NTFS
3.8. IBM
3.8.1. HPFS
3.8.2. JFS
3.9. Other Unix Flavors
3.9.1. UFS
3.9.2. BSD Disklabels
3.9.3. System V FS
3.9.4. XFS
3.9.5. Solaris SPARC Disklabel
3.9.6. Solaris x86 Disklabel
3.10. Miscellaneous Systems
3.10.1. BeOS BFS
3.10.2. QNX RTOS
3.10.3. Veritas VxFS
3.11. CD File Systems
3.11.1. ISO9660
3.11.2. The Joliet Extension
3.11.3. The RockRidge Extension
3.11.4. Hybrid PC/Macintosh CDs
3.11.5. The El Torito Boot Specification
3.11.6. UDF
3.11.7. Sega Dreamcast
3.11.8. Xbox DVD file system
3.11.9. 3DO file system
3.12. Boot Loaders
3.12.1. GRUB
3.12.2. FreeBSD
3.12.3. Windows and MS-DOS
3.12.4. BeOS and derivatives
3.13. Disk Image Formats
3.13.1. Raw CD Images
3.13.2. Apple Disk Images
3.13.3. Linux cloop Images
3.13.4. Virtual PC Disk Images
3.14. Archive Formats
3.14.1. tar
3.14.2. cpio
3.14.3. dump/restore
3.14.4. bar
3.15. Compression Formats
3.15.1. compress
3.15.2. gzip
3.15.3. bzip2

This chapter lists the supported formats in some detail. Descriptions include background information, hints for interpreting the disktype output, and pointers to further information.

The formats are grouped by platform or vendor for context.

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