QCOWINFO(1)

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💖 qcowinfo — the vibe check for your QCOW files 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for qcowinfo, a LOCAL command, and it is genuinely one of the most useful little gremlins in the libqcow toolkit. It tells you what's inside a QEMU Copy-On-Write image. That's it, that's the job, and it slays at it. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

qcowinfo — determines information about a QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image file 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

qcowinfo [-hvV] source

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

qcowinfo is a utility to determine information about a QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image file. Literally just peeks inside and tells you what's up. No cap. 🔍

qcowinfo is part of the libqcow package. libqcow is a library to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format. iykyk 💜

source is the source file. That's the file you're asking about, bestie. Point at it and go.

The options are as follows:

  • -h — shows this help 🫶
  • -v — verbose output to stderr 📢
  • -V — print version 👑

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

None. Nada. Zilch. The environment variables could never. 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

None. There are no files here. Move along. 💀

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

watch this:

# qcowinfo file.qcow
qcowinfo 20201112

QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image information:
        Format          : 2
      ...

that's the whole thing. the version line, the header, and the info dump. iconic, honestly. ✨

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. So like, if you want the tea, you gotta turn on -v. ☕

but also — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if your build didn't ask for it, -v isn't gonna give you the full story. not me finding that out the hard way 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/

fr fr, if something's broken, tell them. they wanna know. 🫶

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. thank you for your service, king 👑

Copyright (C) 2010-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

libqcow

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and that's a wrap bestie 🎀 this page lives in the libqcow manual, dated December 12, 2020. go read your image info, you deserve it. bye pookie 💖✨

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