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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitive file system?
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Date: 16 Feb 2014 03:29:35 GMT
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On 2014-02-16, Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way in a program to see if a file system uses case
> sensitive names (like traditional Unix) or case irrelevant (like plain
> old HFS+)?

This command will tell you whether or not the boot device is
case-sensitive:

# diskutil info `df / | sed -e /Filesystem/d | awk '{print $1}'` | grep
"Personality" 

   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+

If it's case-sensitive, it will say: "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+".
Otherwise it will just say: "Journaled HFS+".

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