DoDump()
This procedure calls
VixDiskLib_Read()
to retrieve
sectors and displays sector contents on the output in hexadecimal. The default
is to dump only the first sector numbered zero, but you can change this with
the
-start
and
-count
options. Here is a sequence
of commands to demonstrate:
vix-disklib-sample -create sample.vmdk vix-disklib-sample -fill -val 1 sample.vmdk vix-disklib-sample -fill -val 2 -start 1 -count 1 sample.vmdk vix-disklib-sample -dump -start 0 -count 2 sample.vmdk od -c sample.vmdk
On Linux (or Cygwin) you can run the
od
command to show overhead and
metadata at the beginning of file, and the repeated ones and twos in the first
two sectors. The
-dump
option of the sample
program shows only data, not overhead.