VMDKINFO(1)

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💖 vmdkinfo 💖

okay bestie, listen — this is vmdkinfo, a lil cutie from the LOCAL manual section, and she's here to spill all the tea about your VMware Virtual Disk files 🫶 no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

vmdkinfo — figures out the info about a VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) file(s). literally her whole job, and she ate 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vmdkinfo [-ahvV] vmdk_files

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

vmdkinfo is a utility that determines information about a VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) file(s). that's it, that's the mission, and she slays it ✨

vmdkinfo is part of the libvmdk package, and libvmdk is the library that gives you access to the VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) format. the way that these two are basically inseparable... iconic 💜

vmdk_files — this is the entire set of VMDK segment files, or just the one that's holding the descriptor. so like, either the whole squad or the one with the receipts 📋

The options are as follows:

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a — shows allocation information. very "where did all the space go" energy 🔍
  • -h — shows this help. your girl is helpful, what can I say 🙈
  • -v — verbose output to stderr. she gets chatty (in a good way) 💬
  • -V — print version. drop the number bestie 👑

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None. nothing, nada, zero env vars, she doesn't need them 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

None. no files to speak of either, clean girl aesthetic ✨

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

like, let's actually do this:

# vmdkinfo file.vmdk
vmdkinfo 20130514

VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) information:
        Disk type:                      Monolithic sparse
        Media size:                     8589934592 bytes
        Content identifier:             0x505dcf0a
        Parent content identifier:      0xffffffff

see? she just tells you. no drama, just data 😌

💅 DIAGNOSTICS 💅

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. but ok important caveat bestie: verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing them and you're spiraling — that's why, it's a build-time thing, not a you thing 🫶

😭 BUGS 😭

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

fr fr, any bug, any kind. she wants to know. don't be shy 💌

👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. a legend, honestly 🌟

Copyright (C) 2009-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

and yes that's a capital-N capital-O no warranty, she is being so serious rn, no promises about merchantability OR fitness for a particular purpose, periodt 🫡

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • libvmdk
reminder bestie: vmdk_files is the whole set of segment files or the one with the descriptor. don't @ me, that's just how she works 💅

okay bye ily, this cutie is from the libvmdk package and this page is dated March 10, 2019 — she's been serving info since forever and she's not stopping 💜✨

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