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Command description

This operating will convert a dump from one image format to another.

Command usage

Aaru image convert [options] <input-path> <output-path>

Arguments

<input-path> Input image path
<output-path>> Output image path

Options

--cicm-xml, -x=<xml sidecar> take metadata from existing CICM XML sidecar
--comments=<comments> image comments
-c, --count=<count> how many sectors to convert at once (default 64)
--creator=<creator> who (person) created the image?
--drive-manufacturer=<drive-manufacturer> manufacturer of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-model=<drive-model> model of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-revision=<drive-revision> firmware revision of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-serial=<drive-serial> serial number of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
-f, --force=[true/false] continue conversion even if sector or media tags will be lost in the process (default false)
--format, -p=<format> format of the output image, as plugin name or plugin id. If not present, will try to detect it from output image extension.
--media-barcode=<media-barcode> barcode of the media represented by the image
--media-lastsequence=<media-lastsequence> last media of the sequence the media represented by the image corresponds to (default 0)
--media-manufacturer=<media-manufacturer> manufacturer of the media represented by the image
--media-model=<media-model> model of the media represented by the image
--media-partnumber=<media-partnumber> part number of the media represented by the image
--media-sequence=<media-sequence> number in sequence for the media represented by the image (default 0)
--media-serial=<media-serial> serial number of the media represented by the image
--media-title=<media-title> title of the media represented by the image
-O, --options=<options> comma separated name=value pairs of options to pass to output image plugin
-r, --resume-file=<resume-file> take list of dump hardware from existing resume file
--fix-subchannel-position=[true/false] store subchannel according to the sector they describe.
--fix-subchannel=[true/false] try to fix subchannel. Implies fixing subchannel position.
--fix-subchannel-crc=[true/false] if subchannel looks OK but CRC fails, rewrite it. Implies fixing subchannel.
--generate-subchannels=[true/false] generates missing subchannels.
-d, --debug=[true/false] shows debug output from plugins (default false)
-v, --verbose=[true/false] shows verbose output (default false)

Example

Aaru image convert -c 32 --comments="My converted image" --creator="Jane Doe" --drive-manufacturer="LG" --drive-model="CD-RW 1234" --drive-revision="1.0" --drive-serial="AABBCCDDEEFF01" --media-lastsequence=2 --media-sequence=1 --media-title="Important software" -O "deduplicate=true,nocompress=false" -r dd_dump.resume.xml -x dd_dump.cicm.xml dd_dump.iso dump.aaruf

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