Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:15:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: magic number on fs? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0201211212510.23499-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020118212448.C2070-100000@BLAST>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Bernie wrote: > > hello, > > can anyone tell me if it's not too much trouble, > what's the so called 'magic number' on filesystems? > > thanks a lot and sorry for slightly irrelevant > question... Have a look at the jargon file, definition #3: Special data located at the beginning of a binary data file to indicate its type to a utility. there's a bit more there about these. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk ioctl(2): probably the coolest Unix system call in the world To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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