X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fimagex-export.1.in;h=981d7767ef53a9b01e9642b181ef6cf96ce95975;hp=164b1d01d2c33c029a7822d2aa8318b54eee6d5b;hb=88a9d8314ba480d0eb7be351581d2be183efa91e;hpb=fd4b7f8da1550b65583b351a9af2672e6f825963 diff --git a/doc/imagex-export.1.in b/doc/imagex-export.1.in index 164b1d01..981d7767 100644 --- a/doc/imagex-export.1.in +++ b/doc/imagex-export.1.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH IMAGEX "1" "October 2012" "imagex (wimlib) wimlib @VERSION@" "User Commands" +.TH IMAGEX "1" "January 2013" "imagex (wimlib) wimlib @VERSION@" "User Commands" .SH NAME imagex-export \- Exports an image from a WIM archive to an existing or new WIM archive @@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ If multiple images are being exported, this flag indicates that the image in the error. .TP \fB--check\fR -When reading \fISRC_WIMFILE\fR, verify its integrity if the integrity table is -present; additionally, when writing \fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR with the new image added, -write an integrity table. If this option is not specified, no integrity table -is included in \fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR, even if there was one before. +When reading \fISRC_WIMFILE\fR, and \fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR if it exists, verify the +file's integrity if the integrity table is present; additionally, when writing +\fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR with the new image added, write an integrity table. If this +option is not specified, no integrity table is included in \fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR, +even if there was one before. .TP \fB--compress\fR=\fITYPE\fR Specifies the compression type for \fIDEST_WIMFILE\fR. This is only valid if @@ -60,7 +61,19 @@ that of the input WIM file. You may also specify the actual names of the compression algorithms, "XPRESS" and "LZX", instead of "fast" and "maximum", respectively. - +.TP +\fB--threads\fR=\fINUM_THREADS\fR +Number of threads to use for compressing data. Default: autodetect (number of +processors). Note: if exporting to an uncompressed WIM, or exporting to a WIM +with the same compression type as the source WIM, additional threads will not +be used, regardless of this parameter, since no data compression needs to be +done in these cases. +.TP +\fB--rebuild\fR +When exporting image(s) to an existing WIM: rebuild the entire WIM rather than +appending data to the end of it. Rebuilding the WIM is slower, but will save a +little bit of space that would otherwise be left as a hole in the WIM. Also see +\fBimagex optimize\fR. .TP \fB--ref\fR="\fIGLOB\fR" File glob of additional split WIM parts that are part of the split WIM being @@ -98,6 +111,15 @@ imagex export mywim.swm 1 other.wim --ref="mywim*.swm" .RE .PP +.SH NOTES + +Unless --rebuild is specified, aborting an \fBimagex export\fR command mid-way +through has a small chance of corrupting the destination WIM file. However, a +precaution is taken against this, so it should be very unlikely. In the event +of an aborted \fBimagex export\fR, \fBimagex optimize\fR can be run to remove +extra data that may have been partially appended to the physical destination WIM +file but not yet incorporated into the structure of the WIM. + .SH EXAMPLES Export the second image of 'boot.wim' to the new WIM file 'new.wim', and change the compression type to maximum, if it wasn't maximum already: