Name

       mdoctorfat - doctors the allocation table of a file

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Description

       The mdoctorfat command was initially intended as a test/debugging tool. It allows to flag FAT clusters as
       bad blocks, and also to change the clusters allocated to a file. No consistency check is  done,  clusters
       previously allocated to the file are not freed. Use at your own risk.

       Syntax:

       mdoctorfat [-o offset] -b drive clusters
       mdoctorfat [-o offset] [-s size] file clusters

       If  flag -b is present, the command marks the clusters as bad blocks rather than change the allocation of
       a file.

       If flag -b is not present, the commands sets the clusters to allocated to the file.

       If option -s is given in addition to the -b, this also changes the size in bytes of the file.

       The cluster list is represented as a sequence of clusters or cluster ranges. Example: 7-10 20 21-24. Each
       range needs to be a different parameter.

       If -o is given, this specifies an offset to be added to each cluster (offset is expressed  in  number  of
       clusters).

See Also

       Mtools' texinfo doc

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mtools-4.0.48                                        22Feb25                                       mdoctorfat(1)