mmcat1
Output the contents of a partition to stdout
Usage
mmcat [-t
mmtype]
[-o
offset]
[-i
imgtype]
[-b
dev_sector_size]
[-vV]
image
[images]
part_num
Overview
mmcat outputs the contents of a specific volume to stdout. This allows you to extract the contents of a partition to a separate file.
Arguments
- -t mmtype
-
Specify the media management type. Use '-t list' to list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
- -o offset
-
Specify the offset into the image where the volume containing the partition system starts. The relative offset of the partition system will be added to this value.
- -b dev_sector_size
-
The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors. If not given, the value in the image format is used (if it exists) or 512-bytes is assumed.
- -i imgtype
-
Identify the type of image file, such as raw. Use '-i list' to list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
- -v
-
Verbose output of debugging statements to stderr
- -V
-
Display version
- image [images]
-
The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with '-i'. Multiple image file names can be given if the image is split into multiple segments. If only one image file is given, and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as indicated by ending in '.001'), subsequent image segments will be included automatically.
- part_num
-
Address of partition to process. See the mmls output to determine the address of the partitions.
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 8 (Jessie): the text shown here
- Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)