xfs_protofile(8)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so the whole point of xfs_protofile is to create a protofile for use with mkfs.xfs 🧚 it's literally the tool that builds the blueprint so you don't have to type it all out yourself 💅

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

xfs_protofile path [ paths...  ]
xfs_protofile -V

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie, xfs_protofile walks through a directory tree and generates a protofile for you 🌸 the protofile format is explained over in the mkfs.xfs(8) manual page, and it's derived from 3rd edition Unix 🦋 very old-school, very iconic 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• path — this is the main character 💅 it tells xfs_protofile which path to copy into the root directory. if the path is a directory, you'll get protofile directives that replicate the entire subtree as a subtree of the root directory 🌳 if the path is not a directory, you'll get directives that create that file as an entry in the root directory 📄 just remember the first path has to resolve to a directory, no exceptions 🙈

🚨 BUGS 🚨

⚠️ okay, real talk, bestie: filenames cannot contain spaces 💀 and extended attributes are not copied into the filesystem 😭 keep these in mind or your protofile will be lowkey cursed 🫶

Signing off with love from xfs_protofile(8) 💜🧚✨