PARTCLONE.INFO(8)

NAME
partclone.info - The utility to show image head information.

SYNOPSIS

partclone.info {FILE}

DESCRIPTION

partclone.info is a part of Partclone project to retrive partition head information from image file. Partclone provide utilities to backup used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing library, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read the used block of ext2 partition.

Partclone supported file system include btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs and jfs for LINUX. Also support some non-linux operation system, ex: NTFS, FAT, EXFAT(for Windows), HFS plus(APPLE MAC OS), UFS2(FreeBSD), VMFS(VMWare Vsphere). All partclone utils could be run like partclone.xxx is very smiliar fsck or mkfs. For example, for backup/restore hfsplus, just run partclone.hfsp.

OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

FILE
    Image FILE. The FILE could be a image file(made by partclone).

EXAMPLES

      Retriving partition usage information
        partclone.info /home/partimag/sdb2.img
        Partclone v0.2.20 http://partclone.org
        File system:  EXTFS
        Device size:  928.0 MB
        Space in use: 535.4 MB
        Free Space:   392.6 MB
        Block size:   4096 Byte
        Used block :  130708

DIAGNOSTICS

The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

partclone.info provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:
Code | Diagnostic
0 | Program exited successfully.
1 | Clone or Restore seem failed.

BUGS

Report bugs to thomas@nchc.org.tw or http://partclone.org.

You can get support at http://partclone.org

SEE ALSO

partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.restore(8), partclone.dd(8), partclone.info(8)

AUTHOR

Yu-Chin Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai

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