partclone.fstype(8) The utility to show vmfs type

SYNOPSIS

partclone.fstype {FILE}

DESCRIPTION

partclone.fstype

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.

DEVICE

device of vmfs file system.

DIAGNOSTICS

The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

partclone.fstype provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:

CodeDiagnostic
0 Program exited successfully.
1 Clone or Restore seem failed.

BUGS

Report bugs to [email protected] or m[blue]http://partclone.orgm[].

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

AUTHOR

Yu-Chin Tsai <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT


Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai

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