mdoctorfat(1)

Name
mdoctorfat - doctors the allocation table of a file

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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 parameter.

If -o is given, this specifies an offset to be added to each cluster (offset is expressed in number of clusters).

See Also
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