Dump an image filesystem
dumpifs [-bmrvxz] [-d dir] [-f file] [-u file] [-V file] image [file...]
QNX Neutrino, Linux, Mac, Microsoft Windows
Suppose your IFS buildfile contains a symbolic link from /abc/def/foo to /xyz/bar. On the development host, /xyz/bar will likely not point to the expected object. If you specify -r, and the filesystem is extracted to $HOME/ifsroot, access to $HOME/ifsroot/abc/def/foo is redirected to $HOME/ifsroot/abc/def/../../xyz/bar, which collapses to the canonical form of $HOME/ifsroot/xyz/bar and keeps the symbolic link functional.
Effectively, for each directory component in the symbolic link's own path, a ../ is prepended to its target path.
The dumpifs utility dumps the contents of an image filesystem.
You can also use dumpifs with the -f or -x option to extract files from the image filesystem. The files are extracted into the current working directory, or into the directory you specify with the -d option. If you specify -b, the files are put directly into the directory; if you don't specify -b, the files are extracted to the pathname specified in the image.
This program uses the OpenSSL library for cryptography services.
$ dumpifs shell.ifs Offset Size Name 0 288 *.boot 288 100 Startup-header flags1=0x1 paddr_bias=0 388 6008 startup.* 6390 59 Image-header mountpoint=/ 63ec 1ac Image-directory ---- ---- Root-dirent 6598 8c proc/boot/data1 6624 5c proc/boot/.script 6680 14 proc/boot/data2 7000 2c02c proc/boot/procnto 34000 12ad0 proc/boot/devc-con 47000 b66c proc/boot/esh 53000 d7fc proc/boot/ls 61000 7394 proc/boot/cat Checksums: image=0x6d5fb484 startup=0x274d7c89
This utility will not work on an image that has been built using a filter such as srec (for more information on image filters, see mkifs). If you wanted to run dumpifs on such an image, you would build the image omitting the filter stage in your mkifs buildfile (you would then need to run the filter by hand later in order to make a viable image for your target).