mshowfat(1)

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version 4.0.49 · 7 versions
, in alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ mshowfat — it's giving "where is my file actually living" ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mshowfat, a page from the General Commands Manual 💖 this one's short but it's ICONIC for snooping on your FAT filesystem.

💅 NAME 💅

mshowfat — shows the FAT clusters allocated to a file

like, literally, it tells you which clusters your file is squatting in 🏠✨

😭 NOTE OF WARNING 😭

okay so real talk before we get into it, this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and it may not be entirely accurate or complete. no cap. see the end of this man page for the details, bestie, I'm not gatekeeping 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The mshowfat command is used to display the FAT entries for a file. Syntax:

mshowfat [-o offset] files

If no offset is given, a list of all clusters occupied by the file is printed 📋✨ If an offset is given, only the number of the cluster containing that offset (in bytes) is printed 🎯

that's it. that's the whole vibe. short king energy 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • Mtools' texinfo doc

🎀 VIEWING THE TEXI DOC 🎀

okay so this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. BUT — and this is the tea — this process is only approximative 😭, and some items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices, are lost in this translation process. Indeed (yes I said indeed, it's giving academic), these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version. So I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc 💯 See the end of this manpage for instructions on how to view the texinfo doc.

  • 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 ✨ Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info 🙈

fr fr, if you only remember one thing: read the texinfo doc if you want the full picture, because this manpage is the approximation era 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was mtools-4.0.49, dated 14Jun25 — mshowfat(1), out. slay, bye 💅🌈✨

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