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ISOINFO(8)		     System Manager's Manual		      ISOINFO(8)

NAME
     devdump,  isoinfo, isovfy, isodump - Utility programs for dumping and veri-
     fying iso9660 images.

SYNOPSIS
     devdump isoimage

     isodump isoimage

     isoinfo [ options ] [ find [ find expression ]]

     isovfy isoimage

DESCRIPTION
     devdump is a crude utility to interactively display the contents of  device
     or  filesystem  images.   The  initial screen is a display of the first 256
     bytes of the first 2048 byte sector.  The commands are  the  same	as  with
     isodump.

     isodump is a crude utility to interactively display the contents of iso9660
     images  in  order	to  verify directory integrity.  The initial screen is a
     display of the first part of the root directory, and the prompt  shows  you
     the extent number and offset in the extent.

	    You  can use the 'a' and 'b' commands to move backwards and forwards
	    within the image. The 'g' command allows you to  goto  an  arbitrary
	    extent,  and  the  'f' command specifies a search string to be used.
	    The '+' command searches forward for the next instance of the search
	    string, and the 'q' command exits devdump or isodump.

     isoinfo is a utility to perform directory like listings of iso9660 images.

     isovfy is a utility to verify the integrity of an iso9660	image.	Most  of
     the tests in isovfy were added after bugs were discovered in early versions
     of  mkisofs.   It	isn't  all that clear how useful this is anymore, but it
     doesn't hurt to have this around.

OPTIONS
     The options common to all programs are -help,-h,-version,	i=name,dev=name.
     The isoinfo program has additional command line options. The options are:

     -help

     -h     print a summary of all options.

     -d     Print  information	from  the primary volume descriptor (PVD) of the
	    iso9660 image. This includes information about  Rock  Ridge,  Joliet
	    extensions and Eltorito boot information if present.

     -f     generate  output as if a 'find . -print' command had been run on the
	    iso9660 image. You should not use the -l image with the  -f  option.
	    The same output is created by calling isoinfo with -find -print

     -find find expression
	    This  option  acts	a  separator. If it is used, all isoinfo options
	    must be to the left of the -find option. To the right of  the  -find
	    option,  mkisofs  accepts the find command line syntax only.  If the
	    find expression includes a -print or -ls promary, the -l to  isoinfo
	    is	ignored.  If the find expression evaluates as true, the selected
	    action (e.g.  list the ISO-9660 directory) is performed.

     -i iso_image
	    Specifies the path of the iso9660 image that  we  wish  to	examine.
	    The options -i and dev=target are mutual exclusive.

     -ignore-error
	    Ignore  errors.   The  commands by default aborts on several errors,
	    such as read errors. With this option in effect, the commands try to
	    continue.  Use with care.

     dev=target
	    Sets the SCSI target for the drive, see notes above.  A typical  de-
	    vice  specification is dev=6,0 .  If a filename must be provided to-
	    gether with the numerical target specification, the filename is  im-
	    plementation  specific.   The  correct  filename in this case can be
	    found in the system specific manuals of the target operating system.
	    On a FreeBSD system without CAM support, you need to use the control
	    device (e.g.  /dev/rcd0.ctl).  A  correct  device  specification  in
	    this case may be dev=/dev/rcd0.ctl:@ .

	    On	Linux, drives connected to a parallel port adapter are mapped to
	    a virtual SCSI bus. Different adapters are mapped to different  tar-
	    gets on this virtual SCSI bus.

	    If	no dev option is present, the program will try to get the device
	    from the CDR_DEVICE environment.

	    If the argument to the dev= option does not contain  the  characters
	    ',', '/', '@' or ':', it is interpreted as an label name that may be
	    found in the file /etc/default/cdrecord (see FILES section).

	    The options -i and dev=target are mutual exclusive.

     -debug
	    Print  additional  debug  information. This enables e.g. printing of
	    all directory entries if a file has more than  one	directory  entry
	    and printing of more information from the primary volume descriptor.

	    In	debug  mode, Rock Ridge information is parsed with -R even if it
	    is not standard compliant.

     -l     generate output as if a 'ls -lR' command had been run on the iso9660
	    image.  You should not use the -f image with the -l option.

	    The numbers in square brackets are the  starting  sector  number  as
	    decimal  number (based on 2048 bytes per sector) and the iso9660 di-
	    rectory flags as hexadecimal number as follows:

	    0x00   A plain file (not really a flag).

	    0x01   Hide the file name from directory listings.

	    0x02   A directory.

	    0x04   An associated file (e.g. an Apple resource fork).

	    0x08   Record format in extended attributes is used.

	    0x10   No read/execute permission in extended attributes.

	    0x20   reserved

	    0x40   reserved

	    0x80   Not the final entry of a multi extent file.

     -N sector
	    Quick hack to help examine single session disc files that are to  be
	    written  to a multi-session disc. The sector number specified is the
	    sector number at which the iso9660 image should be written when send
	    to the cd-writer. Not used for the first session on the disc.

     -p     Print path table information.

     -R     Extract information from Rock Ridge extensions (if present) for per-
	    missions, file names and ownerships.

     -s     Print file size info in multiples of sector size (2048 bytes).

     -J     Extract information from Joliet extensions	(if  present)  for  file
	    names.

     -j charset
	    Convert  Joliet file names (if present) to the supplied charset. See
	    mkisofs(8) for details.

     -T sector
	    Quick hack to help examine multi-session images  that  have  already
	    been  burned to a multi-session disc. The sector number specified is
	    the sector number for the start of the session we wish to display.

     -X     Extract files from the image and put them into the	filesystem.   If
	    the -find option is not used, all files are extracted.

	    The isoinfo program supports to extract all files, even multi extent
	    files (files > 4 GB).

	    Before  extracting	files  using the -X option, it is recommended to
	    change the current directory to an empty directory in order to  pre-
	    vent to clobber existing files.

     -x pathname
	    Extract  specified file to stdout.	The pathname needs to start with
	    a slash ('/') and in case of iso9660  names,  must	match  the  full
	    pathname  of  the  file including the version number (usually ';1').
	    If the option -R has been specified and the filesystem carries  Rock
	    Ridge  attributes, the pathname must match the full Rock Ridge path-
	    name of the file.

ENVIRONMENT
     CDR_DEVICE
	    This may either hold a device identifier that  is  suitable  to  the
	    open  call	of  the  SCSI  transport  library or a label in the file
	    /etc/default/cdrecord.

     RSH    If the RSH environment is present, the remote connection will not be
	    created via rcmd(3) but by calling the program pointed  to	by  RSH.
	    Use e.g.  RSH=/usr/bin/ssh to create a secure shell connection.

	    Note  that	this  forces  the program to create a pipe to the rsh(1)
	    program and disallows the program to  directly  access  the  network
	    socket  to	the  remote  server.  This makes it impossible to set up
	    performance parameters and slows down the connection compared  to  a
	    root initiated rcmd(3) connection.

     RSCSI  If the RSCSI environment is present, the remote SCSI server will not
	    be	the program /opt/schily/sbin/rscsi but the program pointed to by
	    RSCSI.  Note that the remote SCSI server program name  will  be  ig-
	    nored  if  you  log in using an account that has been created with a
	    remote SCSI server program as login shell.

FILES
     /etc/default/cdrecord
	    Default values can be set for  the	following  options  in	/etc/de-
	    fault/cdrecord.

	    CDR_DEVICE
		   This  may either hold a device identifier that is suitable to
		   the open call of the SCSI transport library or a label in the
		   file /etc/default/cdrecord that allows one to identify a spe-
		   cific drive on the system.

	    Any other label
		   is an identifier for a specific drive on the system.  Such an
		   identifier may not contain the characters ',',  '/',  '@'  or
		   ':'.

		   Each  line that follows a label contains a TAB separated list
		   of items.  Currently, four items are recognized: the SCSI  ID
		   of  the drive, the default speed that should be used for this
		   drive, the default FIFO size that should  be  used  for  this
		   drive  and  drive  specific options. The values for speed and
		   fifosize may be set to -1 to tell  the  program  to	use  the
		   global  defaults.   The value for driveropts may be set to ""
		   if no driveropts are used.  A typical line may look this way:

		   teac1= 0,5,0   4    8m   ""

		   yamaha= 1,6,0  -1   -1   burnfree

		   This tells the program that a drive named teac1 is at scsibus
		   0, target 5, lun 0 and should be used with speed 4 and a FIFO
		   size of 8 MB.  A second drive may be found at scsibus 1, tar-
		   get 6, lun 0 and uses the default speed and the default  FIFO
		   size.

SEE ALSO
     mkisofs(8), cdrecord(1), readcd(1), scg(4), rcmd(3), ssh(1).

BUGS
     The user interface really sucks.

AUTHOR
     The  author  of the original sources (1993 ... 1998) is Eric Youngdale <er-
     icy@gnu.ai.mit.edu> or <eric@andante.jic.com> is to blame for these  shoddy
     hacks.

     Joerg  Schilling  wrote the SCSI transport library and its adaptation layer
     to the programs and newer parts (starting from 1999) of the utilities, this
     makes them Copyright (C) 1999-2018 Joerg  Schilling.   Patches  to  improve
     general usability would be gladly accepted.

FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
     These utilities are really quick hacks, which are very useful for debugging
     problems  in mkisofs or in an iso9660 filesystem. In the long run, it would
     be nice to have a daemon that would NFS export a iso9660 image.

     The isoinfo program is probably the program that is of the most use to  the
     general user.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
     The source code for devdump, isodump, isoinfo and isovfy is included in the
     schilytools  project  and	may be retrieved from the schilytools project at
     Codeberg at:

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/

     The download directory is:

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases

INTERFACE STABILITY
     The interfaces provided by readcd are designed for long term stability.  As
     readcd depends on interfaces provided by the underlying  operating  system,
     the  stability of the interfaces offered by readcd depends on the interface
     stability of the OS interfaces.  Modified interfaces in the OS may  enforce
     modified interfaces in readcd.

Version 3.02			   2022/10/06			      ISOINFO(8)

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