X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fimagex-capture.1.in;h=a3c0ac653333396f4a921efcfb679eadf6d319c9;hp=e20e0979d7385ad2ec4596dd37e86e19e3ebd66a;hb=bc0480e80627467ff64818235fbd164ed179f64c;hpb=6aad3bee18ef52fc81d6df36080aa53bf8aa1d82 diff --git a/doc/imagex-capture.1.in b/doc/imagex-capture.1.in index e20e0979..a3c0ac65 100644 --- a/doc/imagex-capture.1.in +++ b/doc/imagex-capture.1.in @@ -237,6 +237,24 @@ information. In the NTFS capture mode, do not capture security descriptors. This flag is also available in the native Win32 build of wimlib. .TP +\fB--rpfix\fR, \fB--norpfix\fR +Set whether to fix targets of absolute symbolic links (reparse points in Windows +terminology) or not. When enabled (\fB--rpfix\fR), absolute symbolic links that +point inside the directory tree being captured will be adjusted to be absolute +relative to the root of the directory tree being captured. In addition, +absolute symbolic links that point outside the directory tree being captured +will be ignored and not be captured at all. When disabled (\fB--norpfix\fR), +absolute symbolic links will be captured exactly as is. + +The default behavior for \fBimagex capture\fR is equivalent to \fB--rpfix\fR. +The default behavior for \fBimagex append\fR will be \fB--rpfix\fR if reparse +point fixups have previously been done on \fIWIMFILE\fR, otherwise +\fB--norpfix\fR. + +Links are fixed up on a per-source basis in the case of a multi-source capture +(\fB--source-list\fR specified), so you may wish to set \fB--norpfix\fR in that +case. +.TP \fB--strict-acls\fR In the Win32 native build of wimlib, fail immediately if the full security descriptor of any file or directory cannot be read. The default behavior @@ -313,17 +331,6 @@ of an aborted \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ append\fR, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ optimize\fR m extra data that may have been partially appended to the physical WIM file but not yet incorporated into the structure of the WIM. -Capturing or appending an image happens in two main phases: (1) scanning the -directory or NTFS volume to checksum all the files and determine the streams to -be written, and (2) writing the new streams to the WIM file. Streams are not -stored in memory after (1), since there could easily be gigabytes of data; -instead, they are read again during step (2); however, duplicate streams in the -image, and streams already existing in any other image in the WIM, are not read -again. In the future, it may be possible to introduce the ability to capture an -image with reading each file only one time, although this mode would have some -limitations--- for example, a stream might be compressed only to be thrown away -as a duplicate once it's been checksummed. - \fISOURCE\fR may be a symbolic link to a directory rather than a directory itself. However, additional symbolic links in subdirectories, or in additional source directories not destined for the WIM image root (with