https://github.com/rubiojr/diskid

https://github.com/rubiojr/diskid

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rubiojr/diskid
• Owner: rubiojr
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-10-27T12:54:59.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-11-17T18:21:13.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-28T00:05:25.772Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# DiskID

 

Get info from a virtual disk file.

    $ diskid micro-frameos.vmdk

    diskid.frameos.org

    file name: micro-frameos.vmdk

    file format: vmdk

    virtual size: 1.2G (1287651328 bytes)

    disk size: 274M (287593984 bytes)

## Installation

    gem install diskid

diskid needs curl and head commands available in your system.

Internet access is also required, as diskid sends a few bytes to http://diskid.frameos.org to identify the disk.

## Usage

    diskid --help

    

### EXAMPLES

Identify a VMDK:

    $ diskid ubuntu64-1104.vmdk

    diskid.frameos.org

    file name: ubuntu64-1104.vmdk

    file format: vmdk

    virtual size: 9.0G 

    variant: streamOptimized

    disk size: 319M 

PROTIP: You don't need to install diskid to use the service

    head -n 20 ubuntu64-1104.vmdk > /tmp/dchunk && curl -X POST -F chunk=@/tmp/dchunk http://diskid.frameos.org/?format=text

Identify a VMDK and print JSON output:

    

    $ diskid --format json ubuntu64-1104.vmdk

    diskid.frameos.org

    {"file_name":"ubuntu64-1104.vmdk","format":"vmdk", "variant":"streamOptimized", "virtual_size":"9.0G","disk_size":"319M"}

  Valid output formats:

  * json

  * text

  * xml

Identify a virtual disk without using the diskid.frameos.org web service (needs qemu-img installed locally):

    $ diskid --local ubuntu64-1104.vmdk

    file_name: ubuntu64-1104.vmdk

    format: vmdk

    variant: monolithicSparse

    virtual_size: 9.0G

    disk_size: 319M

## NERD STUFF

DiskID Webservice is a thin wrapper around the bleeding edge version of qemu-img from the QEMU project: http://qemu.org

All the magic happens there!

Copyright (c) 2011 Sergio Rubio. See LICENSE.txt for

further details.