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CPIO_VXFS (1)

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NAME

cpio_vxfs - copy file archives in and out

SYNOPSIS

cpio -i [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }]

cpio -o [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }]

cpio -p [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }] directory


AVAILABILITY

VRTSvxfs

DESCRIPTION

The VxFS-specific cpio is an extension of the generic cpio command. The VxFS-specific cpio supports all the options of the generic cpio command, plus the -e option to preserve file extent attributes. Extent attributes include space reservation, fixed extent size, and extent allocation flag information.

OPTIONS

-e
The -e option requires one of the following arguments. If you omit the -e option, warn is the default cpio behavior.
force
Fails the extract or copy operation on a file if the file's extent attributes cannot be preserved.
ignore
Ignores any errors in preserving extent attributes.
warn
Issues a warning if the space reservation or the fixed extent size of the file cannot be preserved. This is the default behavior.
-i
In copy in mode (-i plus -e), cpio preserves any file extent attributes extracted from the archive.
-o
In copy out mode (-o plus -e), cpio stores the extent attributes of the files in the archive.
-p
In pass mode (-p plus -e), cpio copies the extent attributes of the input file to the output file.

NOTES

Archives created by the VxFS-specific cpio and those of the generic cpio are fully compatible; files archived by one can be extracted by the other.

SEE ALSO

cpio(1), ls_vxfs(1), vxfsio(7)

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