affconvert(1)

✨ NAME ✨

Heyy bestie 🦋 okay so this is the page for affconvert(1), and the name is affconvert 💅 It's a convert files between RAW and AFF formats kind of tool 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

affconvert [options] file1 [... files]

So you toss in whatever options you want, then file1, plus as many more files as you feel like 🧚

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Okay this tool does three glow-ups: RAW to AFF, AFF to RAW, and AFF to AFF, which is basically recompressing or uncompressing your AFF file 🔥

⚠️ WARNING: the source file must have 'raw' or 'aff' as extension in name. No cap, your filename needs that extension or it's not happening 💀

This tool is part of the AFFLIBv3, which is the library that actually provides AFF ✨

AFF is an open and extensible file format for storing disk images plus their associated metadata. It's super useful in lots of scenarios, like computer forensics investigations 🔍 main character energy, honestly 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

General options

• -q — Quiet mode 🤫 It won't ask you questions and it won't print status updates.
• -V — Just prints the version number and exits. Quick and clean 💖

AFF output options

• -a<ext> — Use 'ext' as the extension for aff files. The default is aff, or afd for AFD files 🌈
• -L — Uses the LZMA compression algorithm. It's better, but slower 🐢
• -Mn[kmg] — Sets the maximum size of the output file. Suffix it with k, m, or g. Use it with -o 🍓
• -O<dir> — Uses 'dir' as the output directory. Example: -Otest. Heads up, you need to create the directory yourself first! 🙈
• -o<dir>.afd — Outputs to 'dir'.afd. This can only convert one file at a time 💅 If the file ends in .aff, it's treated as AFF. Otherwise it's assumed to be raw. The directory must have .afd as its extension.
• -s<n> — Sets the image_pagesize to 'n'. The default is 16777216 ✨
• -x — Don't compress the AFF file 🧊
• -X<n> — Sets compression to 'n'. The default is 7 🦋

Raw output options

• -e<ext> — Use 'ext' for the raw files. The default is raw. This one implies -r 🧚
• -r — Generates raw output 🌸

Dangerous input options

🌶️ These ones are spicy, bestie. Read before you use them 💀

• -y — Always answers yes/no questions with 'yes.' Very confident, very risky 😭
• -Z — Does not automatically probe for gzip/bzip2 compression 🙅‍♀️
• -z — ZAPS (deletes) the output file if it already exists. Yes, it's actually deleting it 💀 Be careful with this one, okay?

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Convert file1.raw to file1.aff:

$ affconvert file1.raw

Convert file1.aff to file1.raw:

$ affconvert -r file1.aff

Batch convert files:

$ affconvert file1.raw file2.raw file3.raw

$ affconvert -r file1.aff file2.aff file3.aff

Split an AFF file into 4GB chunks for archiving to DVD:

$ affconvert -M4g -odvd.afd  bigfile.aff

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

affcat(1), affcompare(1), affcopy(1), affcrypto(1), affdiskprint(1), affinfo(1), affix(1), affrecover(1), affsegment(1), affsign(1), affstats(1), affuse(1), affverify(1), affxml(1) 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The AFFLIB was written by Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> and Basis Technology, Inc. Iconic energy 💜

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🫶

And that's the whole page, bestie 💖 AFFCONVERT 3.7.4 from Oct 2014, periodt ✨