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FSTYP(8)                  BSD System Manager's Manual                 FSTYP(8)

NAME
     fstyp -- identify a file system

SYNOPSIS
     fstyp device

DESCRIPTION
     The fstyp utility attempts to determine what sort of volume is present on the given device.  It oper-ates operates
     ates by iterating over directories that are typically part of the path, searching for files matching
     the pattern fstyp_* and running them.  If it finds a match, it will print out the file system type name
     and exit with a return value of 1.  If it does not find a match, it will not print out anything, and
     the return value will be 0.

BSD                             August 15, 2005                            BSD

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