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mdoctorfat(1) General Commands Manual mdoctorfat(1) Name mdoctorfat - doctors the allocation table of a file Note of warning This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details. Description The mdoctorfat command was initially intended as a test/debugging tool. It allows to flag FAT clusters as bad blocks, and also to change the clusters allocated to a file. No consistency check is done, clusters previously allocated to the file are not freed. Use at your own risk. Syntax: mdoctorfat [-o offset] -b drive clusters mdoctorfat [-o offset] [-s size] file clusters If flag -b is present, the command marks the clusters as bad blocks rather than change the allocation of a file. If flag -b is not present, the commands sets the clusters to allocated to the file. If option -s is given in addition to the -b, this also changes the size in bytes of the file. The cluster list is represented as a sequence of clusters or cluster ranges. Example: 7-10 20 21-24. Each range needs to be a different pa- rameter. If -o is given, this specifies an offset to be added to each cluster (offset is expressed in number of clusters). See Also Mtools' texinfo doc Viewing the texi doc This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process. Indeed, these items have no appropriate represen- tation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc. * To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol- lowing commands: ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi * To generate a html copy, run: ./configure; make html A premade html can be found at `http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/man- ual/mtools.html' * To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run: ./configure; make info The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info. mtools-4.0.47 19Jan25 mdoctorfat(1)
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