osx - How to find the format of a disk volume -

osx - How to find the format of a disk volume -

i updating backup utility have written , have on mac app store.

in macintosh cocoa application, how find how disk volume formatted? official thing find, doing getresourcevalue: 'nsurlvolumelocalizedformatdescriptionkey', language dependent.

my utility not back upwards volumes formatted fat32. utility needs special handling xsan drives.

statfs(2) give non-localized name:

struct statfs volinfo; if(statfs("/path/to/your/volume", &volinfo) != 0) { perror("statfs"); homecoming -1; } fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", volinfo.f_fstypename);

see /system/library/filesystems names returned in f_fstypename.

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