2.2 Command Line Options

Fatback version 1.3 provides the following command line options:

-a
--auto

Run Fatback in automatic undelete mode. This mode will attempt to recover all deleted files in a given partition, and only that partition. If the input data is a partitioned drive, use the -p number or --partition=number option to specify which partition to use.

-o directory
--output=directory

Place recovered files into the directory specified. If Fatback is run in automatic undelete mode, or if a recursive copy is performed, sub directories will be created underneath the output directory that correspond to directories in the partition that Fatback is working with.

-l log-file
--log=log-file

Place the audit log into the specified file.

-v
--verbose

Display extra information to the screen.

-p partition-number
--partition=partition-number

Process a specific partition of a partitioned drive. This is necessary to use auto mode with a partitioned drive. In interactive mode, the partition menu will be bypassed.

-d
--delprefix=prefix

Use prefix as the beginning of the name of deleted files. The default value is ’?’.

-s
--single

Treat input as a single partition without checking for partitions.

-z sector-size
--sectsize=sector-size

Use sector-size as the sector size of the input data instead of the default value of 512.

-h
--help

Display a help screen and terminate

-V
--version

Display the Fatback version number and terminate.