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.TH exfat2img 8
.SH NAME
exfat2img \- dump metadata of an exFAT filesystem
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B exfat2img
[
.B \-o \fIpath\fB\
] [
.B \-V
]
.I device
.br
.B exfat2img \-V
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B exfat2img
dump metadata of exFAT filesystems for debugging. \fBexfat2img\fP dump boot sector, File Allcation Table, Bitmap and all metadata which can reach from root directory.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-o\ \-\-output
Specify output result file. If filesystem to which output file is written does not support sparse file, you should use '-' in place of \fIpath\fP.
Because a dump image generated from stdout has a special format, when restoring a partition from it, exfat2img should be used. See Examples.
.TP
.B \-V
Prints the version number and exits.

.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
Dump metadata into a sparse file.
.EX
.RB "$" " exfat2img -o sda1.dump /dev/sda1

Dump metadata into standard out and restore a partition
.EX
.RB "$" " exfat2img -o - /dev/sda1 | bzip2 > sda1.dump.bz2"
.RB "$" " bzip2 -dc sda1.dump.bz2 | exfat2img -o /dev/sdb1 -"