X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman1%2Fimagex.1.in;h=ca22d0dd8e05c4265e53ad991afaec3ef255a690;hb=4dd45340f9fe3a533e0f1a9d6b79f8118e45ca2a;hp=e395ad6b739bc03beab55fa00820af0215f45328;hpb=318a6c9d7bb1c6f6f94f6dc39ee9a54eb0280493;p=wimlib diff --git a/doc/man1/imagex.1.in b/doc/man1/imagex.1.in index e395ad6b..ca22d0dd 100644 --- a/doc/man1/imagex.1.in +++ b/doc/man1/imagex.1.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX 1 "May 2014" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" +.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX 1 "June 2014" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" .SH NAME @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ \- Extract, create, modify, or mount a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) archive .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ directly from a block device containing an NTFS volume, or applying a WIM image directly to a block device containing an NTFS volume. This allows saving and restoring NTFS-specific data, such as security descriptors and named data streams, which is otherwise only supported on Windows. This feature is -unavailable if wimlib was was configured using --without-ntfs-3g. +unavailable if wimlib was configured using --without-ntfs-3g. .IP \[bu] Long path support on Windows. \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR can capture and apply files with paths exceeding the MAX_PATH (260 character) limitation of the Win32 @@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ to standard output or read from standard input. This can be used to pipe images to or from a server over the network to implement fast filesystem imaging and restore. .IP \[bu] +On UNIX-like systems, support for saving and restoring UNIX uids (user IDs), +gids (group IDs), and modes to/from WIM images. This is a wimlib extension, but +the Microsoft implementation ignores this extra metadata. +.IP \[bu] Multithreaded compression. By default, data compression is multithreaded and will use all available processors. In most cases, this can be changed by the \fB--threads\fR option. @@ -163,8 +167,8 @@ can do better than the equivalent Microsoft implementations. .IP \[bu] "ESD file" support. As mentioned in \fBBACKGROUND INFORMATION\fR, "ESD files" use a new WIM format that features solid blocks and LZMS compression. This -support was first present in wimlib v1.6.0, but later v1.6 releases have -improved compatibility. +support was first present in wimlib v1.6.0, but v1.7.0 and later have improved +compatibility. .IP \[bu] Mounting WIM images. This relies on FUSE (Filesystem in UserSpacE) and is only supported on compatible UNIX-like systems, in particular Linux. FreeBSD may @@ -178,7 +182,7 @@ Delta WIMs. A delta WIM contains image metadata but excludes file data already present in another WIM file. A delta WIM can be created using \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture\fR with the \fB--delta-from\fR option. .IP \[bu] -WIMBoot support. On Windows 8.1 and later, files on a NTFS volume can be +WIMBoot support. On Windows 8.1 and later, files on an NTFS volume can be externally backed by a WIM archive with the help of Microsoft's Windows Overlay FileSystem Filter Driver (WOF). With the \fB--wimboot\fR flag, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply\fR will extract "pointer files" (actually NTFS