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Display most likely desired 'next' sector (in hierarchy) in default format
This will display the 'next likely' sector on the current opened store
by using the 'next' value set by any previous display of a sector.
Displaying the 'next' sector (Ctrl+N) on an opened filesystem will
show the most interesting sectors like bootsector, superblocks etc.
In general, each display function will set this 'next' value to the
sector that is the most 'desirable' to be visited/displayed next.
Display the sector just AFTER 'this' one (sectornr +1) in default format
This will display the sector AFTER the current one (this),
in the default format for the type of sector found there.
Display the sector just BEFORE 'this' one (sectornr -1) in default format
This will display the sector BEFORE the current one (this),
in the default format for the type of sector found there.
Open a logfile for all screen output to come, append if file exists
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the logfile.
All information that goes to the screen will be appended
to the specified file as well.
Functional trace program-flow to 9 100 Kb cyclic files, for DFSee debugging
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the tracefiles.
Functional tracing will be enabled, and logging will be set
to use three files of maximum 100 Kb in size, so the risk of
filling up the available space is greatly reduced.
The first file will have file extension 'log' and the rest
will use a number extension '.ln' with n being the logfile
sequence number starting at 01 and without an upper limit.
This method of tracing is intended to allow analysis of
crashes (traps, access violations) in DFSee itself that
are very hard to diagnose otherwise.
Generate an email/news friendly QUERY report with disk and partition info
This will generate a short QUERY report, with a line-length
and size that allows it to be easily included in an email or
newsgroup posting showing the most relevant disk and partition
information when you request for help ...
It will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the logfile.
When a logfile is currently open, it will be closed and
then reopened after the QUERY has completed.
Save all text in text-output window to an ASCII file (could be large!)
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the logfile.
All information that is currently present in the scrollable
text window, will be written to the selected/specified file.
Note: The file will be overwritten when it exists already.
Change the current directory, where files will be saved by default
This will present a 'select-directory' dialog with the current
working directory displayed. You can change it bu selecting
another drive, subdirectory or even typing in a new path.
The path as displayed (in blue) will become the current working
directory when the dialog is closed.
Open an object like a disk, partition or volume to analyse and work with
This submenu contains all menu-items related to OPENING an object
to analyse, fix or otherwise work with using other DFSee commands
and menu selections. The opened object will be the CURRENT one.
Open disk selected by submenu, to work on part-tables, LVMinfo or whole disk
On selection this will open a submenu containing all physical
and virtual disks known to DFSee.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the disk, the MBR with a partition-table
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used
Open partition selected by submenu, to work on the filesystem in a partition
On selection this will open a submenu containing all partitions
on all the disks known to DFSee.
The partitions are grouped per physical/virtual disk
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and set
the 'base' values to the start and end of the partition.
Logical sector number 0 (LSN 0) will represent the first
sector in the real partition (bootsector)
After opening the partition, its bootsector will be displayed.
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Open freespace area from a submenu, to work on that area only (disk, base)
On selection this will open a submenu containing all freespace
areas on all disks known to DFSee.
The freespaces are grouped per physical/virtual disk.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use by setting
the 'base' values to the start and end sectors for the freespace.
This will limit many operations to work in this area only, since
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used
Open volume for analysis (
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used
Open RAW imagefile for analysis only, use 'Actions' menu for restore...
Open partition selected by submenu, to work on, show more details on opening
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Open volume for analysis (
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used
Mount/Unmount/Display partitionable media, Eject and Refresh Removable media
Mount TO DFSee disk-list media like a physical/virtual disk or a RAW image
Create and mount virtual disk, sized and initialized with selected .PDx file
Create and mount a new virtual disk, size as specified or like current disk
Mount an existing physical disk, specified by disknumber (Unix: devicename)
Mount a RAW imagefile as a disk, like SVISTA .HDD containerfiles and others
Unmount FROM DFSee disk-list media like a physical/virtual disk or RAW image
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used
Display DFSee disk-list, mapping of disk-id to media like disks and devices
OS: Eject removable medium selected from a list of known removable drives
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a removable volume (driveletter) to be used
OS: Refresh the list of removable media, attempt rediscover new ones by OS
Run a DFSee script from a '*.DFS' file, like a recovery scenario
Reboot to the a BMGR bootable partition selected from the list (setboot)
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition from the IBM BMGR menu to be booted
Reboot the system after confirmation, filesystems are flushed properly.
Exit the DFSee program
Download the complete menu-documentation as static HTML (15 Mb ZIP)
On selection this will open a submenu containing all volumes
(driveletters) The list can be refreshed for removable media
using the <F7> key.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the volume, usually that is the bootsector.
Volume access is needed for devices like diskettes and CDROM.
It will open a volume by its driveletter, using the standard OS
filesystem driver.
For harddisks the 'Open Partition' menu selection is strongly
advised since there will be less problems introduced by the
extra filesystem-layer.
Imagefile ...
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Imagefile ...
On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
binary imagefiles present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the imagefile.
Partition, verbose
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Partition, verbose
On selection this will open a submenu containing all partitions
on all the disks known to DFSee.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and set
the 'base' values to the start and end of the partition.
After opening the partition, its bootsector will be displayed,
where applicable VERBOSE mode will be used to show more detail
Volume, verbose
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Volume, verbose
On selection this will open a submenu containing all volumes
(driveletters) The list can be refreshed for removable media
using the <F7> key.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the volume, usually that is the bootsector,
where applicable VERBOSE mode will be used to show more detail
Media management
From main menu: File -> Media management
This submenu contains menu-items related to media management for:
Partitionable Media : Mount, Unmount, Display
Removable Media : Eject, refresh
Mount on the DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Mount on the DFSee disk-list
This submenu allows you to mount a new partionable medium.
A partionable medium is any medium known to DFSee that can
be subdivided into partitions. All available partitionable
media can be listed using the 'media' command or menu-item.
Every medium available can be opened or used as a 'disk' in
other DFSee commands or menu items.
Virtual from .PDx Template ...
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Mount on the DFSee disk-list -> Virtual from .PDx Template ...
This will present a file-open dialog where a .PDx file
containing saved disk-information can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the new virtual disk will be
created with equal size and geometry, and the saved sectors
from the .PDx file will be loaded into the virtual disk.
When matching .SNx/.BNx or .IMx files are present, these will
be imported or restored to the new virtual disk automatically.
This is extremely useful to create a virtual copy of an
existing disk for partitioning or recovery experiments.
The results of the DFSDISK script are ideal candidates to
be used as templates for a new virtual disk (DFSDISK?.*)
A VIRTUAL disk only exists within memory in DFSee, and can be
used to analyse a setup or test many partitioning and recovery
scenarios without any risk of damaging the real disk.
Note: Since the whole virtual disk is kept in main memory, some
commands like WIPE, CLONE and imaging are not practical to
use on them, they would fill all available memory ...
Empty virtual disk
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Mount on the DFSee disk-list -> Empty virtual disk
This will present a dialog where the size of of the new virtual
can be specified using either CHS-geometry based values or a
direct size in binary megabytes or gigabytes (MiB/GiB).
The default for the size unit is MiB. Example values:
800 ;will create an 800 Mib virtual
117,g ;will create an 117 GiB virtual
3748,c ;3748 cylinder disk, default geometry
3748,c 128 32 ;3748 cylinders, 128 heads, 32 sectors
When left blank, the disk will be modelled after the currently
selected disk, with the same size and geometry.
The virtual disk will be completely empty after creation.
A VIRTUAL disk only exists within memory in DFSee, and can be
used to analyse a setup or test many partitioning and recovery
scenarios without any risk of damaging the real disk.
Note: Since the whole virtual disk is kept in main memory, some
commands like WIPE, CLONE and imaging are not practical to
use on them, they would fill all available memory ...
Physical, existing disk
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Mount on the DFSee disk-list -> Physical, existing disk
This will present a dialog where the NUMBER of
an existing physical disk can be specified.
On selecting a valid disk, it will be
mounted as a new partionable medium.
At startup of DFSee all existing physical disks will be
mounted by default, unless the '-d' switch is used.
Raw disk image (like SVISTA)
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Mount on the DFSee disk-list -> Raw disk image (like SVISTA)
This will present a file-open dialog where a RAW image file
containing a partitioned disk image can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the RAW image will be opened and
mounted as a new partionable medium.
This means the contents will be shown with the 'part' command
and all other DFSee functionality for disks and partitions is
available for the image ...
This is extremely useful to analyse or work on RAW container
files for virtual-machine products like SVISTA.
Unmount from DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Unmount from DFSee disk-list
This will remove the selected 'disk' from the list of partionable media.
Partionable media, known as 'disks' within DFSee, can be listed using
the 'media' command or the menu-item 'Display -> Partionable Media'.
Every item listed is considered a 'disk' so its partitions can
be displayed, analysed and worked on.
The UNMOUNT action will remove on 'disk' from that list, making it
unavailable for other DFSee functions until you mount it again.
By default, at DFSee startup all physical disks will be mounted,
and on exit all disks will be unmounted automatially.
Display the DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Display the DFSee disk-list
This will display a table showing the relationship between:
Disk-id The disk-id as used in many DFSee commands
DFSee-type Type of medium for DFSee, physical, virtual ...
disk number Real disk number, specific to the type of medium
Description The (Linux) device name for this disk device,
an Image filename and/or details on the medium
All entries in this table can be used as a 'disk' in the many
DFSee commands that deal with them, and these are also listed
in the default partition and MAP displays in DFSee.
Note that the 'Disk-id' is really a 'Partionable Medium Id',
Eject a removable medium
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Eject a removable medium
This action will attempt to eject a medium selected from
a list of (potentially) removable media.
Refresh removable media
From main menu: File -> Media management -> Refresh removable media
This will refresh the list of removable media.
On OS2 it will use the LVM Engine to rediscover any
potential removable media (Rediscover PRM).
Run DFSee script ...
From main menu: File -> Run DFSee script ...
On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
DFSee script files present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
Selecting one of these will run the selected script.
Boot using IBM Bootmanager
From main menu: File -> Boot using IBM Bootmanager
This will allow you to select any of the defined IBM BootManager
bootable partitions to boot from.
On selection this will flush the filesystem-caches when possible,
and then reboot to the selected BMGR name.
There will NOT be an additional 'are you sure' confirmation!
Boot the system Now
From main menu: File -> Boot the system Now
On selection this will flush the filesystem-caches when possible,
and then reboot in a similar way as <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Delete> would.
There will NOT be an additional 'are you sure' confirmation!
Exit c-Q
From main menu: File -> Exit c-Q
On selection this will exit the program, and return to the
evironment that started it. This may be the operating system
commandline, desktop or even another program.
When DFSee was started in 'SHELL' mode, this selection
will be disabled.
Shell mode is most often used to prevent access to the operating
system, or perhaps the operating system command interpreter is not
available at all (example: using DFSOS2.EXE as protshell in OS/2).
You can force program-exit using the <Alt> + ` (back-quote) keys,
but the effect is unpredictable ...
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