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124Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents

Using Ghost Explorer from the command line

If Ghost Explorer reports a corruption in your image file, you may be able to get further details of the nature of the corruption. Normally, you would only use these options when asked to do so by Ghost Explorer Technical Support.

Table 9-1lists the arguments with which you can start the program.

Table 9-1Ghost Explorer arguments

-d1

-d2

-d4

Reports on corruptions or significant events in FAT file systems

Reports on corruptions or significant events in NTFS file systems

Reports on corruptions or significant events in Ext2/3 files

The reports are presented to you as dialog boxes. You can use all switches or use -d7 to turn on all options.

Ghost Explorer has a batch mode in which it carries out a single command and then exits. In this version, batch mode supports the saving of the contents to a text file only. To use this mode, specify one of the switches in Table 9-2.

Table 9-2	Batch mode switches
-t		Saves the list of directories in the dump file to a file with the same
		name as the image file but with an extension of .txt
-tf		Saves a list of directories and files
-tv		Saves a verbose listing of directories and files
-t[vf]=filename		Saves the list to the file specified

See “Listing the contents of an image file” on page 121.

If Ghost Explorer reports that a spanned or split image is corrupt without prompting for the second part of the image, it may not recognize that the image is split. Starting with the -split argument forces Ghost Explorer to treat an image as a split image.

See “Setting span file sizes” on page 121.