mclasserase(1)

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version 4.0.32 · 2 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

mclasserase — erase memory cards 💳💥

🚨 NOTE OF WARNING 🚨

Okay bestie, real talk before anything else: this manpage was automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, so it might not be entirely accurate or complete. 😭 No cap. Scroll all the way to the end of this page for the details on that. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, mclasserase is the command you call when you want to wipe a memory card — and when I say wipe, I mean it goes all the way off. It overwrites the whole thing three times:

  1. first with 0xff 💜
  2. then with 0x00 🖤
  3. then with 0xff again 💜

Three passes. That's the whole vibe. It's giving "no takebacks."

The command uses the following syntax:

mclasserase [-d] msdosdrive

The MS-DOS drive is optional — if you don't specify one, it just uses A:. And if you specify more than one drive? All but the last one get ignored. Yep. Only the last one matters, she's the main character. 👑

Mclasserase accepts the following command line options:

  • d — stop after each erase cycle, for testing purposes 🧪
  • p — not yet implemented 🙈 (she's not ready yet, leave her alone)

And when it's all done, mclasserase returns 0 on success or -1 on failure. Periodt. 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Mtools' texinfo doc 📖

🧚 VIEWING THE TEXI DOC 🧚

Okay so this is the part where I have to be honest with you: this manpage was automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. But the process is only approximative, and some items — like crossreferences, footnotes and indices — get straight up lost in translation. 💀 Like, these items literally have no appropriate representation in the manpage format. And it's not just that: not all information has been translated into the manpage version. So yeah, I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc instead. See the end of this manpage for instructions on how to view it. 🫶

  • To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:
./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
  • To generate a html copy, run:
./configure; make html

A premade html can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html ✨

  • To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
./configure; make info

The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. 🌈 Fr fr — in the info version, certain examples are difficult to read because of the quoting conventions used in info. Not her fault, it's just how info is. 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from mtools-4.0.32, dated 10Jul21 — go forth and erase responsibly 🎀🦋🌸

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