From: Phil Lougher <phil.lougher@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Bhattiprolu, Ravikumar (Ravikumar)" <ravikb@agere.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Magic Number for New File system
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:53:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cce9e37e041218115321c300b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041218023929.GB19699@thunk.org>
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:39:29 -0500, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> There's no standard place to put a magic number, let alone a standard
> way to generate a magic number....
>
> The blkid library, contained in the e2fsprogs distribution, contains a
> list of magic number and their locations used by various different
> filesystems, if you'd like to take a look at that for some more
> information.
The disktype program (http://disktype.sourceforge.net) can be used to
decode the content type of a disk/filesystem image. It recognises a
large amount of filesystems and partition types etc. From a quick
glance, the documentation describes the concepts behind magic numbers
and superblock formats, and gives an overview of the filesystem
formats recognised. If you're new to this, this is probably a
reasonable place to start.
Phillip
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-18 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 6:12 Magic Number for New File system Bhattiprolu, Ravikumar (Ravikumar)
2004-12-17 8:51 ` Mike Waychison
2004-12-18 2:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-18 19:53 ` Phil Lougher [this message]
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