# format-udf mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für format-udf in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:format-udf
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install format-udf
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:format-udf
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Bash script to format a block device to UDF
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- format-udf (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.8.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

format-udf is a Bash script for formatting block devices as UDF volumes intended to be read and written across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its README presents it as a compatibility tool for external hard drives and flash drives.

### Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in August 2014. The README says the project was created to address operating-system-specific quirks that make naively formatted UDF devices fail across platforms, including block-size expectations, partition-table behavior, and macOS full-disk mounting behavior.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The project remains a focused utility rather than a broad platform. Its official release history shows incremental fixes around OS and device support, including macOS 10.12 support, loop devices, udftools 2.0+, NVMe, and broader block-device handling.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run the script against a Linux device such as /dev/sdx or a macOS device such as /dev/diskN, supplying a volume label. The script detects block size, validates dependencies, can wipe the target, formats with UDF revision 2.01 for compatibility, and writes a fake MBR unless disabled.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

format-udf matters to package nerds because it codifies a pile of cross-platform filesystem edge cases in one auditable shell script. It is the kind of small system package that exists because the underlying native tools are powerful but not friendly to a portable-disk workflow.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: GitHub repository created.
- 2016: Release added macOS 10.12 support.
- 2018: Release added support for udftools 2.0 and newer.
- 2020: Releases added Linux NVMe and broader block-device support.

### Related projects

- format-udf depends on platform tools such as mkudffs or newfs_udf and wraps Universal Disk Format workflows. Its README discusses the fake-MBR technique used to improve Windows compatibility for whole-disk UDF volumes.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/JElchison/format-udf>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/JElchison/format-udf/releases?per_page=10>
- <https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JElchison/format-udf/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/format-udf.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/format-udf.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph