fsck.cramfs(8)

fsck.cramfs8

Fsck compressed rom file system

Usage

fsck.cramfs [options] file

Overview

fsck.cramfs is used to check the cramfs file system.

Options

-v, --verbose

Enable verbose messaging.

-b, --blocksize blocksize

Use this blocksize, defaults to page size. Must be equal to what was set at creation time. Only used for --extract.

--extract[=directory]

Test to uncompress the whole file system. Optionally extract contents of the file to directory.

-a

This option is silently ignored.

-y

This option is silently ignored.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Display version and exit.

Exit status

0

success

4

file system was left uncorrected

8

operation error, such as unable to allocate memory

16

usage information was printed

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Reporting bugs

For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

Availability

The fsck.cramfs command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

From util-linux 2.42.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.