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The options are as follows:

-B endian

Set the byte order of the image to endian. Valid byte orders are ‘4321’, ‘big’, or ‘be’ for big endian, and ‘1234’, ‘little’, or ‘le’ for little endian. Some file systems may have a fixed byte order; in those cases this argument will be ignored.

-b free-blocks

Ensure that a minimum of free-blocks free blocks exist in the image. An optional ‘%’ suffix may be provided to indicate that free-blocks indicates a percentage of the calculated image size.

-D

Treat duplicate paths in an mtree manifest as warnings not error.

-d debug-mask

Enable various levels of debugging, depending upon which bits are set in debug-mask. XXX: document these

-F mtree-specfile

This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for. To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest, specify it as the last argument on the command line, not as a the argument to -F.

Use mtree-specfile as an mtree(8) ‘specfile’ specification. This option has no effect when the image is created from a mtree manifest rather than a directory.

If a specfile entry exists in the underlying file system, its permissions and modification time will be used unless specifically overridden by the specfile. An error will be raised if the type of entry in the specfile conflicts with that of an existing entry.

In the opposite case (where a specfile entry does not have an entry in the underlying file system) the following occurs: If the specfile entry is marked optional, the specfile entry is ignored. Otherwise, the entry will be created in the image, and it is necessary to specify at least the following parameters in the specfile: type, mode, gname, or gid, and uname or uid, and link (in the case of symbolic links). If time is not provided, the current time will be used. If flags is not provided, the current file flags will be used. Missing regular file entries will be created as zero-length files.

-f free-files

Ensure that a minimum of free-files free files (inodes) exist in the image. An optional ‘%’ suffix may be provided to indicate that free-files indicates a percentage of the calculated image size.

-M minimum-size

Set the minimum size of the file system image to minimum-size.

-m maximum-size

Set the maximum size of the file system image to maximum-size. An error will be raised if the target file system needs to be larger than this to accommodate the provided directory tree.

-N userdb-dir

Use the user database text file master.passwd and group database text file group from userdb-dir, rather than using the results from the system's getpwnam(3) and getgrnam(3) (and related) library calls.

-O offset

Instead of creating the filesystem at the beginning of the file, start at offset. Valid only for ffs and msdos.

-o fs-options

Set file system specific options. fs-options is a comma separated list of options. Valid file system specific options are detailed below.

-p

Deprecated. See the -Z flag.

-R roundup-size

Round the image up to roundup-size. roundup-size should be a multiple of the file system block size. This option only applies to the ffs file system type.

-S sector-size

Set the file system sector size to sector-size. Defaults to 512.

-s image-size

Set the size of the file system image to image-size. This is equivalent to setting both the minimum (-M) and the maximum (-m) sizes to the same value. For ffs and msdos the image-size does not include the offset. offset is not included in that size.

-T timestamp

Specify a timestamp to be set for all filesystem files and directories created so that repeatable builds are possible. The timestamp can be a pathname, where the timestamps are derived from that file, or an integer value interpreted as the number of seconds from the Epoch. Note that timestamps specified in an mtree(5) spec file, override the default timestamp.

-t fs-type

Create an fs-type file system image. The following file system types are supported:

ffs

BSD fast file system (default).

cd9660

ISO 9660 file system.

msdos

FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32 file system.

-x

Exclude file system nodes not explicitly listed in the specfile.

-Z

Create a sparse file for ffs. This is useful for virtual machine images.

Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected. Two or more numbers may be separated by an “x” to indicate a product. Each number may have one of the following optional suffixes:

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