+ ("ping_daemon", (RErr, []), 92, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["ping_daemon"]])],
+ "ping the guest daemon",
+ "\
+This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
+the qemu subprocess. Calling this function checks that the
+daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
+or attached block device(s) in any other way.");
+
+ ("equal", (RBool "equality", [String "file1"; String "file2"]), 93, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
+ [["write_file"; "/file1"; "contents of a file"; "0"];
+ ["cp"; "/file1"; "/file2"];
+ ["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
+ [["write_file"; "/file1"; "contents of a file"; "0"];
+ ["write_file"; "/file2"; "contents of another file"; "0"];
+ ["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]])],
+ "test if two files have equal contents",
+ "\
+This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
+true if their content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
+
+The external L<cmp(1)> program is used for the comparison.");
+
+ ("strings", (RStringList "stringsout", [String "path"]), 94, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["write_file"; "/new"; "hello\nworld\n"; "0"];
+ ["strings"; "/new"]], ["hello"; "world"]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["touch"; "/new"];
+ ["strings"; "/new"]], [])],
+ "print the printable strings in a file",
+ "\
+This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns
+the list of printable strings found.");
+
+ ("strings_e", (RStringList "stringsout", [String "encoding"; String "path"]), 95, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["write_file"; "/new"; "hello\nworld\n"; "0"];
+ ["strings_e"; "b"; "/new"]], []);
+ InitBasicFS, Disabled, TestOutputList (
+ [["write_file"; "/new"; "\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000\n\000w\000o\000r\000l\000d\000\n"; "24"];
+ ["strings_e"; "b"; "/new"]], ["hello"; "world"])],
+ "print the printable strings in a file",
+ "\
+This is like the C<guestfs_strings> command, but allows you to
+specify the encoding.
+
+See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+
+Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
+show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+
+The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.");
+
+ ("hexdump", (RString "dump", [String "path"]), 96, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["write_file"; "/new"; "hello\nworld\n"; "12"];
+ ["hexdump"; "/new"]], "00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello.world.|\n0000000c\n")],
+ "dump a file in hexadecimal",
+ "\
+This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>. The result is
+the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file.");
+
+ ("zerofree", (RErr, [String "device"]), 97, [],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["sfdisk"; "/dev/sda"; "0"; "0"; "0"; ","];
+ ["mkfs"; "ext3"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "test file"; "0"];
+ ["umount"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["zerofree"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "test file")],
+ "zero unused inodes and disk blocks on ext2/3 filesystem",
+ "\
+This runs the I<zerofree> program on C<device>. This program
+claims to zero unused inodes and disk blocks on an ext2/3
+filesystem, thus making it possible to compress the filesystem
+more effectively.
+
+You should B<not> run this program if the filesystem is
+mounted.
+
+It is possible that using this program can damage the filesystem
+or data on the filesystem.");
+
+ ("pvresize", (RErr, [String "device"]), 98, [],
+ [],
+ "resize an LVM physical volume",
+ "\
+This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM physical
+volume to match the new size of the underlying device.");
+
+ ("sfdisk_N", (RErr, [String "device"; Int "n";
+ Int "cyls"; Int "heads"; Int "sectors";
+ String "line"]), 99, [DangerWillRobinson],
+ [],
+ "modify a single partition on a block device",
+ "\
+This runs L<sfdisk(8)> option to modify just the single
+partition C<n> (note: C<n> counts from 1).
+
+For other parameters, see C<guestfs_sfdisk>. You should usually
+pass C<0> for the cyls/heads/sectors parameters.");
+
+ ("sfdisk_l", (RString "partitions", [String "device"]), 100, [],
+ [],
+ "display the partition table",
+ "\
+This displays the partition table on C<device>, in the
+human-readable output of the L<sfdisk(8)> command. It is
+not intended to be parsed.");
+
+ ("sfdisk_kernel_geometry", (RString "partitions", [String "device"]), 101, [],
+ [],
+ "display the kernel geometry",
+ "\
+This displays the kernel's idea of the geometry of C<device>.
+
+The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
+be parsed.");
+
+ ("sfdisk_disk_geometry", (RString "partitions", [String "device"]), 102, [],
+ [],
+ "display the disk geometry from the partition table",
+ "\
+This displays the disk geometry of C<device> read from the
+partition table. Especially in the case where the underlying
+block device has been resized, this can be different from the
+kernel's idea of the geometry (see C<guestfs_sfdisk_kernel_geometry>).
+
+The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
+be parsed.");
+
+ ("vg_activate_all", (RErr, [Bool "activate"]), 103, [],
+ [],
+ "activate or deactivate all volume groups",
+ "\
+This command activates or (if C<activate> is false) deactivates
+all logical volumes in all volume groups.
+If activated, then they are made known to the
+kernel, ie. they appear as C</dev/mapper> devices. If deactivated,
+then those devices disappear.
+
+This command is the same as running C<vgchange -a y|n>");
+
+ ("vg_activate", (RErr, [Bool "activate"; StringList "volgroups"]), 104, [],
+ [],
+ "activate or deactivate some volume groups",
+ "\
+This command activates or (if C<activate> is false) deactivates
+all logical volumes in the listed volume groups C<volgroups>.
+If activated, then they are made known to the
+kernel, ie. they appear as C</dev/mapper> devices. If deactivated,
+then those devices disappear.
+
+This command is the same as running C<vgchange -a y|n volgroups...>
+
+Note that if C<volgroups> is an empty list then B<all> volume groups
+are activated or deactivated.");
+
+ ("lvresize", (RErr, [String "device"; Int "mbytes"]), 105, [],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["sfdisk"; "/dev/sda"; "0"; "0"; "0"; ","];
+ ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "10"];
+ ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "test content"; "0"];
+ ["umount"; "/"];
+ ["lvresize"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "20"];
+ ["e2fsck_f"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
+ ["resize2fs"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content")],
+ "resize an LVM logical volume",
+ "\
+This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM logical
+volume to C<mbytes>. When reducing, data in the reduced part
+is lost.");
+
+ ("resize2fs", (RErr, [String "device"]), 106, [],
+ [], (* lvresize tests this *)
+ "resize an ext2/ext3 filesystem",
+ "\
+This resizes an ext2 or ext3 filesystem to match the size of
+the underlying device.
+
+I<Note:> It is sometimes required that you run C<guestfs_e2fsck_f>
+on the C<device> before calling this command. For unknown reasons
+C<resize2fs> sometimes gives an error about this and sometimes not.
+In any case, it is always safe to call C<guestfs_e2fsck_f> before
+calling this function.");
+
+ ("find", (RStringList "names", [String "directory"]), 107, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["find"; "/"]], ["lost+found"]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["mkdir"; "/b"];
+ ["touch"; "/b/c"];
+ ["find"; "/"]], ["a"; "b"; "b/c"; "lost+found"]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
+ [["mkdir_p"; "/a/b/c"];
+ ["touch"; "/a/b/c/d"];
+ ["find"; "/a/b/"]], ["c"; "c/d"])],
+ "find all files and directories",
+ "\
+This command lists out all files and directories, recursively,
+starting at C<directory>. It is essentially equivalent to
+running the shell command C<find directory -print> but some
+post-processing happens on the output, described below.
+
+This returns a list of strings I<without any prefix>. Thus
+if the directory structure was:
+
+ /tmp/a
+ /tmp/b
+ /tmp/c/d
+
+then the returned list from C<guestfs_find> C</tmp> would be
+4 elements:
+
+ a
+ b
+ c
+ c/d
+
+If C<directory> is not a directory, then this command returns
+an error.
+
+The returned list is sorted.");
+
+ ("e2fsck_f", (RErr, [String "device"]), 108, [],
+ [], (* lvresize tests this *)
+ "check an ext2/ext3 filesystem",
+ "\
+This runs C<e2fsck -p -f device>, ie. runs the ext2/ext3
+filesystem checker on C<device>, noninteractively (C<-p>),
+even if the filesystem appears to be clean (C<-f>).
+
+This command is only needed because of C<guestfs_resize2fs>
+(q.v.). Normally you should use C<guestfs_fsck>.");
+
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