.TH THIN_REPAIR 8 "Thin Provisioning Tools" "Red Hat, Inc." \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
thin_repair \- repair thin provisioning binary metadata from device/file to device/file

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B thin_repair
.RB [ options ]
.RB -i
.I {device|file}
.RB -o
.I {device|file}

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B thin_repair
reads binary thin provisioning metadata created by the
respective device-mapper target from one
.I device
or
.I file
, repairs it and writes it to another
.I device
or
.I file.
If written to a metadata
.I device
, the metadata can be processed
by the device-mapper target.

This tool cannot be run on live metadata.

.IP "\fB\-i, \-\-input\fP \fI{device|file}\fP"
Input file or device with binary metadata.

.IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output\fP \fI{device|file}\fP"
Output file or device for repaired binary metadata.

.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
Print help and exit.

.IP "\fB\-V, \-\-version\fP"
Output version information and exit.

.SH EXAMPLE
Reads the binary thin provisioning metadata from file
.B metadata
, repairs it and writes it to logical volume /dev/vg/metadata
for further processing by the respective device-mapper target:
.sp
.B thin_repair -i metadata -o /dev/vg/metadata

.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.B thin_repair
returns an exit code of 0 for success or 1 for error.

.SH SEE ALSO
.B thin_dump(8)
.B thin_check(8)
.B thin_restore(8)
.B thin_rmap(8)
.B thin_metadata_size(8)

.SH AUTHOR
Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
.br
Heinz Mauelshagen <HeinzM@RedHat.com>