uncompvm(1M)uncompvm(1M)NAMEuncompvm - expand a compressed IRIX vmcore dump of the operating system
SYNOPSIS
/etc/uncompvm [ -hHvfd ] [ -s max_mbytes ]
[ -b block_number | list | check ] corename [ outfile ]
DESCRIPTIONuncompvm expands IRIX vmcore.n.comp files into standard vmcore.n files.
Under some circumstances, an IRIX operating system core dump may be made
in a special compressed format. Running file(1) on a vmcore.n.comp file
yields something like the following:
vmcore.0.comp: IRIX vmcore dump of 'IRIX abu stever-j 03080214 IP19'
uncompvm without any command-line options uncompresses these into files
of up to the size of the physical memory on the system that created the
dump. For this reason, it may not be advisable to expand such dumps. If
outfile is not specified, uncompvm expands the dump into vmcore.n without
the .comp extension.
The options are:
-h Header mode. In header mode, uncompvm does not
uncompress the entire dump file, but rather decodes the
dump header which contains information about the system
and the reason it created a vmcore file.
-H Long header mode. Like header mode, but it prints a more
complete accounting of the information in the dump
header.
-d Debug mode. Useful only for debugging uncompvm.
-v Verbose mode. Prints additional information for each
block of the corename.
-s max_mbytes Specifies the maximum size of the expanded vmcore.n file
in megabytes.
-b block_number Print detailed information about a particular
block_number. The block_number of interest can be
possibly obtained by first running the 'uncompvm -b list
corename'. (Output goes to stdout).
-b list Print specific header information for each block of the
corename. (Output goes to stdout, generates lots of
output!).
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uncompvm(1M)uncompvm(1M)-b check uncompvm will read all corename and verify the
completeness and correctness of the corename dump. No
output will be generated unless errors were detected.
When -b is specified, uncompvm will not generate the uncompressed outfile
even if the outfile has been specified on the uncompvm call. The -b
option is useful to see more in details the internals of the corename and
it is thus most used by developers.
EXAMPLEuncompvm-s 16 vmcore.0.comp
This uncompresses vmcore.0.comp into vmcore.0, truncating the size of
vmcore.0 to 16 megabytes if necessary.
uncompvm-b check vmcore.0.comp
This will read through the coredump and verify its correctness and
completeness. No output will be generated unless errors were detected.
DIAGNOSTICS
uncompvm: filename is not an IRIX compressed dump file! is printed if
uncompvm doesn't recognize the file as a compressed dump file.
SEE ALSOsavecore(1M), trcore(1M).
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