exfat2img(8)

🎀 exfat2img(8) 🎀

Okay bestie, this is the exfat2img(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, and it's giving debugging energy 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

exfat2img is the tool for when you need to dump the metadata of an exFAT filesystem 🦋

💜 SYNOPSIS 💜

exfat2img [ -o path] [ -V ] device
exfat2img -V

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so exfat2img dumps metadata from exFAT filesystems, and it's literally built for debugging 🙈 It grabs the boot sector, the File Allocation Table, the Bitmap, and all the metadata that can be reached from the root directory. Main character energy, no cap 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o, --output — This is where you tell it where your output file goes. If the filesystem holding your output file doesn't support sparse files, use - in place of the path instead 🫶 Also, a dump made from stdout has a special format, so if you want to restore a partition from it, you have to use exfat2img to do it. Check the EXAMPLES section, it's the vibe 💖
• -V — Prints the version number and exits. Quick and iconic 🍓

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Dump the metadata into a sparse file:

$ exfat2img -o sda1.dump /dev/sda1

Dump the metadata to standard out and restore a partition:

$ exfat2img -o - /dev/sda1 | bzip2 > sda1.dump.bz2
$ bzip2 -dc sda1.dump.bz2 | exfat2img -o /dev/sdb1 -

Thats the tea, bestie 💅 You're officially an exFAT metadata queen now 👑🌈 Stay iconic, and check the exfat2img(8) page whenever you need a refresher 🦋💜