Provided by: udftools_2.3-2_amd64 
NAME
udfinfo — show information about UDF filesystem
SYNOPSIS
udfinfo [ options ] device
DESCRIPTION
udfinfo shows various information about a UDF filesystem stored either on the block device or in the disk
file image. The output from the udfinfo is suitable for parsing by external applications or scripts.
OPTIONS
-h,--help
Display the usage and the list of options.
-b,--blocksize= block-size
Specify the size of blocks in bytes. Valid block size for a UDF filesystem is a power of two in
the range from 512 to 32768 and must match a device logical (sector) size. If omitted, udfinfo
tries to autodetect block size. First it tries logical (sector) size and then all valid block
sizes.
--startblock= start-block
Specify the block location where the UDF filesystem starts. It is used for calculating the block
location of the Volume Recognition Sequence (32 kB after the start block) and the first Anchor
Volume Descriptor Pointer (256 blocks after the start block).
Normally start block is 0, but for Multisession UDF optical discs it is the block location where
the last session of Multisession UDF disc starts.
If omitted, udfinfo for optical disc tries to detect start block of the last session from disc
Table Of Contents. Otherwise value 0 is used.
For accessing some previous session of Multisession UDF optical disc, it is required to specify
correct block where that previous session starts. And also to specify where that session ends via
--lastblock option.
For Multisession UDF disc images stored in file there is no way to detect where the last session
starts and therefore it is necessary to specify the correct start block location manually from the
original optical disc Table Of Contents.
(Option available since udfinfo 2.3)
--lastblock= last-block
Specify the block location where the UDF filesystem ends. It is used for calculating the block
location of second and third Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointer (256 blocks prior the last block and
the last block itself).
Normally last block is number of disk blocks minus one, but for Multisession UDF optical discs
when reading different session than the last one (specified by --startblock) it is the block
location where the specified session ends.
If omitted, udfinfo for optical disc tried to detect the last recorded block with fallback to the
last block of device or disk file image.
For accessing some previous session of Multisession UDF optical disc, it is required to specify
correct value for both --startblock and --lastblock options.
(Option available since udfinfo 2.3)
--vatblock= vat-block
Specify the block location of the Virtual Allocation Table. Virtual Allocation Table is present
only on UDF disks with Virtual Partition Map and must be at the last written/recorded disk block.
If omitted, udfinfo for optical disc tries to detect the last recorded block with fallback to the
last block of block device or disk file image or block specified by --lastblock. In most cases,
this fallback does not have to work and for disk file images with Virtual Allocation Table it is
necessary to specify the correct location.
Virtual Allocation Table contains locations of UDF disk blocks needed to read data storage,
determinate used and free space blocks, read File Set Identifier and calculate Windows-specific
Volume Serial Number. Also, it contains Logical Volume Identifier and overwrite previously stored
in Logical Volume Descriptor.
--locale
Encode UDF string identifiers on output according to current locale settings (default).
--u8 Encode UDF string identifiers on output to 8-bit OSTA Compressed Unicode format without leading
Compression ID byte, which is equivalent to Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding. This will work only for
strings which all Unicode code points are below U+100.
--u16 Encode UDF string identifiers on output to 16-bit OSTA Compressed Unicode format without leading
Compression ID byte, which is equivalent to UTF-16BE.
--utf8 Encode UDF string identifiers on output to UTF-8.
EXIT STATUS
udfinfo returns 0 if successful, non-zero if there are problems like a block device does not contain UDF
filesystem.
OUTPUT FORMAT
First part of the udfinfo standard output contains information in key=value format. List of all keys with
their meaning are in the following table:
filename File name of the selected block device or disk file image
label label is an alias for lvid, see udflabel(8) section UDF LABEL AND UUID
uuid UUID are first 16 hexadecimal lowercase digits of fullvsid, but see udflabel(8)
section UDF LABEL AND UUID
lvid UDF Logical Volume Identifier stored in UDF Logical Volume Descriptor
vid UDF Volume Identifier stored in UDF Primary Volume Descriptor
vsid fullvsid after uuid part, typically 17.–127. character
fsid UDF File Set Identifier stored in UDF File Set Descriptor
fullvsid UDF Volume Set Identifier stored in UDF Primary Volume Descriptor
owner UDF Logical Volume Info1 stored in UDF Implementation Use Volume Descriptor,
represents Owner name, person creating the medium or filesystem (available since
udfinfo 2.3)
organization UDF Logical Volume Info2 stored in UDF Implementation Use Volume Descriptor,
represents Organization name responsible for creating the medium or filesystem
(available since udfinfo 2.3)
contact UDF Logical Volume Info3 stored in UDF Implementation Use Volume Descriptor,
represents Contact information for the medium or filesystem (available since
udfinfo 2.3)
appid UDF Application Identifier stored in UDF Primary Volume Descriptor, identifies
application that created medium or filesystem (available since udfinfo 2.3)
impid UDF Developer Identifier stored in UDF Implementation Identifier of UDF Primary
Volume Descriptor, uniquely identifies the implementation which created medium or
filesystem (available since udfinfo 2.3)
winserialnum Windows-specific Volume Serial Number
blocksize UDF block size
blocks Number of all blocks on the selected block device or disk file image
usedblocks Number of used space blocks on UDF disk for data storage
freeblocks Number of free space blocks on UDF disk for data storage
behindblocks Number of blocks which are behind the last block used by UDF disk
numfiles Number of stored files on UDF disk
numdirs Number of stored directories on UDF disk
udfrev UDF revision needed for reading UDF disk
udfwriterev UDF revision needed for writing or modifying UDF disk
startblock Block location where the UDF filesystem starts (visible only when non-zero,
available since udfinfo 2.3)
lastblock Block location where the UDF filesystem ends (visible only when it is not same as
the last block on disk, available since udfinfo 2.3)
vatblock Block location of the UDF Virtual Allocation Table (visible only when available)
integrity UDF integrity of Logical Volume, one of: opened, closed, unknown
accesstype UDF Access Type, one of: overwritable, rewritable, writeonce, readonly,
pseudo-overwritable, unknown
softwriteprotect Status of UDF SoftWriteProtect flag, either yes or no (available since udfinfo
2.2)
hardwriteprotect Status of UDF HardWriteProtect flag, either yes or no (available since udfinfo
2.2)
When UDF integrity is not closed it means that the UDF disk was not properly unmounted, is in an
inconsistent state and needs repairing.
When either softwriteprotect or hardwriteprotect flag is set then UDF disk should be treated as read-
only.
All UDF string identifiers are stored on UDF disk in Unicode, therefore they are locale or code page
agnostic. Options --locale, --u8, --u16 and --utf8 controls how are identifiers encoded on output.
All newline characters from the UDF string identifiers are removed, so it is guaranteed that the newline
character is present only as a separator.
Second part of the udfinfo standard output contains list of UDF block types stored on device, one per
line in the following format:
start=block-num, blocks=block-count, type=block-type
With meaning that block-type starts at UDF block block-num and span block-count blocks on device.
Windows-specific Volume Serial Number is a non-standard 32-bit checksum, calculated as four separate
8-bit XOR checksums of 512 bytes long UDF File Set Descriptor. Therefore, it cannot be set or changed as
opposed to UUID which is 64-bit long. This non-standard checksum is used only by Windows systems (since
Windows 98 era when it was introduced) and can be displayed on Windows systems by applications like vol,
dir or fsutil.exe.
LIMITATIONS
udfinfo prior to version 2.3 was unable to handle Multisession UDF discs correctly. It always printed
only information about the first session (the oldest one) and not about the last session (the most
recent).
udfinfo prior to version 2.2 was unable to print Unicode strings with code points above U+FFFF correctly.
udfinfo prior to version 2.2 was unable to read Metadata Partition. Therefore, determining used and free
space blocks, reading File Set Identifier and calculating Windows-specific Volume Serial Number did not
have to be available or correctly calculated for disks with UDF revisions higher than 2.01 which had
Metadata Partition.
udfinfo prior to version 2.1 was unable to read Virtual Allocation Table stored outside of Information
Control Block. Therefore above limitation applied also for some Write Once media.
AUTHOR
Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
AVAILABILITY
udfinfo is part of the udftools package since version 2.0 and is available from
https://github.com/pali/udftools/.
SEE ALSO
mkudffs(8), pktsetup(8), udflabel(8), cdrwtool(1), wrudf(1)
Commands udftools UDFINFO(1)