thin_metadata_unpack(8)

💖 thin_metadata_unpack(8) 💖

System Manager's Manual, the iconic manual page for thin_metadata_unpack ✨

✨ NAME ✨

okay so thin_metadata_unpack is the tool that unpacks thin provisioning binary metadata 📦 It's giving decompression energy 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

thin_metadata_unpack [options] -i {device|file} -o {device|file}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, listen. thin_metadata_pack and thin_metadata_unpack are a duo 👯‍♀️ They compress binary metadata, and it's literally useful for support 🫶

thin_metadata_unpack takes metadata that was previously packed with thin_metadata_pack and expands it back out 🌸 The output is a binary file that the rest of the thin tools can actually use. Main character energy ✨

🚫 Do NOT run this on live metadata. This tool cannot be run on live metadata, no cap, so don't even try it 💀

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -h, --help — shows you the help text and then exits 🙈
• -V, --version — prints the version info and then exits 🧚
• -i, --input {device|file} — the input file or device that has the binary data in it 📥
• -o, --output {device|file} — the output file or device where the binary data is going to land 📤

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

iykyk, but the related tools are thin_dump(8), thin_check(8), thin_restore(8), thin_rmap(8), and thin_metadata_size(8) 📚 Go check them out, they're iconic 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> 💜

bestie, that's the whole tea ☕️ Part of the Device Mapper Tools crew from the System Manager's Manual, the one and only thin_metadata_unpack(8) 🎀 Stay iconic, stay unpacked, and never run it on live metadata 💖🦋✨