---
name: "cramfsck"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cramfsprogs"
version: "1.1-6"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cramfsck"
---

# cramfsck(8)

check a compressed ROM file system

## NAME

cramfsck - check a compressed ROM file system

## SYNOPSIS

**cramfsck** \[**-hv**\] \[**-x** *dir*\] *file*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cramfsck** command. This manual page was written for the **Debian GNU/Linux** distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.

**cramfsck** checks the consistency of a **CramFs** file system given by *file*. Unlike other file system checkers, it does not attempt to repair a broken file system.  This is not a deficiency as **CramFs** is not subject to the kind of corruption that a writable file system may endure.

**cramfsck** is also able to extract the contents of the file system.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Give a brief help message.

- **-v**

  Turn on verbose mode.

- **-x** *dir*

  In addition to checking the given file system, extract its contents into *dir*.

## AUTHOR

**cramfsck** is written by Linus Torvalds and Daniel Quinlan.  Manual page added by Herbert Xu.