# Installer format-udf avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de format-udf pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

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

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

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

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:format-udf
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.0
- **Résumé source:** Bash script to format a block device to UDF
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- format-udf (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.8.0
## Historique du projet et usages

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.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

### Chronologie

- 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.

### Sources

- <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>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- 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)


## Sources

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