FATDEBUG

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXIT CODES
EXAMPLES
KNOWN ISSUES
AUTHORS
AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO

NAME

fatdebug − Create a metadata dump of a FAT volume suitable for bug reporting.

SYNOPSIS

fatdebug device|image

DESCRIPTION

fatdebug will efficiently extract all metadata relevant for debugging from a FAT volume and dump it to standard output. It works at disk sector level and copies only the metadata of the FAT volume (so the resulting output is relatively small).

fatdebug is mostly useful when sending bug reports to FAT developers.

EXIT CODES

The exit code is 0 on success, non−zero otherwise.

EXAMPLES

Dump FAT file system metadata on /dev/sda1 to a local image file:

fatdebug /dev/sda1 > sda1.img

Dump FAT file system metadata on /dev/sda1 to a bzip2-compressed local image file:

fatdebug /dev/sda1 | bzip2 > sda1.img

Dump FAT file system metadata to a remote host, using ssh. Please note that ssh may ask for a password!

fatdebug /dev/sda1 | ssh host ’cat > sda1.img’

KNOWN ISSUES

There are no known problems with fatdebug. If you think you have found a problem then please send an email describing it to fat-support@tuxera.com.

AUTHORS

fatdebug was written by Sougata Santra, Tuxera Inc.

AVAILABILITY

fatdebug is part of the Tuxera TFATprogs package.

SEE ALSO

fatdump(8)