107 lines
2.8 KiB
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107 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.\" "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
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.\" <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
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.\" can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
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.\" this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Maxim Sobolev
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.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd March 17, 2006
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.Dt MKUZIP 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mkuzip
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.Nd compress disk image for use with
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.Xr geom_uzip 4
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class
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl v
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.Op Fl o Ar outfile
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.Op Fl s Ar cluster_size
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.Ar infile
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility compresses a disk image file so that the
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.Xr geom_uzip 4
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class will be able to decompress the resulting image at run-time.
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This allows for a significant reduction of size of disk image at
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the expense of some CPU time required to decompress the data each
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time it is read.
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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works in two phases:
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.Bl -enum
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.It
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An
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.Ar infile
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image is split into clusters; each cluster is compressed using
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.Xr zlib 3 .
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.It
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The resulting set of compressed clusters along with headers that allow
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locating each individual cluster is written to the output file.
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.El
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.Pp
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The options are:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl o Ar outfile
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Name of the output file
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.Ar outfile .
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The default is to use the input name with the suffix
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.Pa .uzip .
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.It Fl s Ar cluster_size
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Split the image into clusters of
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.Ar cluster_size
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bytes, 16384 bytes by default.
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The
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.Ar cluster_size
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should be a multiple of 512 bytes.
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.It Fl v
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Display verbose messages.
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.El
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.Sh NOTES
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The compression ratio largely depends on the cluster size used.
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.\" The following two sentences are unclear: how can gzip(1) be
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.\" used in a comparable fashion, and wouldn't a gzip-compressed
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.\" image suffer from larger cluster sizes as well?
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For large cluster sizes (16K and higher), typical compression ratios
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are only 1-2% less than those achieved with
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.Xr gzip 1 .
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However, it should be kept in mind that larger cluster
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sizes lead to higher overhead in the
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.Xr geom_uzip 4
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class, as the class has to decompress the whole cluster even if
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only a few bytes from that cluster have to be read.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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inserts a short shell script at the beginning of the generated image,
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which makes it possible to
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.Dq run
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the image just like any other shell script.
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The script tries to load the
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.Xr geom_uzip 4
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class if it is not loaded, configure the image as an
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.Xr md 4
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disk device using
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.Xr mdconfig 8 ,
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and automatically mount it using
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.Xr mount_cd9660 8
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on the mount point provided as the first argument to the script.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr gzip 1 ,
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.Xr zlib 3 ,
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.Xr geom 4 ,
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.Xr geom_uzip 4 ,
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.Xr md 4 ,
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.Xr mdconfig 8 ,
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.Xr mount_cd9660 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Maxim Sobolev Aq sobomax@FreeBSD.org
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