User`s guide

9 Working in the command-line mode

Acronis Disk Director supports the command-line mode for the most important disk and volume

operations with ADDCommandLine.exe utility. This utility is launched locally, i.e. on the machine

where the Disk Director is installed.

In this section

Supported commands .............................................................................. 79

Usage examples ....................................................................................... 81

9.1 Supported commands

ADDCommandLine.exe has the following format:

\ADDCommandLine.exe /[command] /[option1] /[option2]…

Commands may be accompanied by options. Below is a list of supported commands and compatible

options.

create

Creates a new volume using unallocated space on one or more disks.

Options

[/os:<id>]

Specifies the ID of the operating system layout under which the operation will be executed.

If not specified, the operation will be executed under the currently running operating system.

/disks:<id_list>

Specifies the hard disk IDs on which the operation will be executed (separated by commas).

Specifies the type of the volume.

If not specified, an active volume is created on the first hard disk and logic partitions on other

disks.

[/start:<megabytes>]

Specifies the volume offset, i.e. the amount of disk space before the volume from the beginning

of the disk (in megabytes).

If not specified, the volume is created without offset.

[/size:<megabytes>]

Specifies the volume size (in megabytes).

If not specified, the volume occupies all the specified disks.

[/fs:"<None|NTFS|FAT16|FAT32|EXT2|EXT3|ReiserFS|Linux Swap>"]

Specifies the file system type for the volume.

If not specified, the volume is not formatted.

[/clustersize:<bytes>]