Command line arguments

[bobpsmith]

First of all- thank you for a great utility!

Does Rufus support command line argument? So that you can specify an ISO when starting Rufus. Something like...

rufus.exe /iso=win7.iso

If not, would you consider adding that feature?

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Bob

[pbatard]

I have had a few requests for this, so I'm likely to implement commandline support eventually.
However when I do that, I'd rather add comprehensive support (i.e. not just providing an ISO, but also a target, file system, type and so on), so it will take a while.
Adding that feature currently sits around the middle of my backlog so don't expect anything fast...

[bobpsmith]

Thanks for the information.

[bobpsmith]

Thanks for the work on command line request. I also noticed that you added UEFI support a while ago. Thanks for adding UEFI support. I didn't know I needed it- until today!

[couchcommander]

Can you create readme file with all current and future command line switches that RUFUS uses.

[pbatard]

Try rufus -h from an elevated command prompt. 😉

[couchcommander]

That works, but I do not see any partition commands.
Which what I am anxiously waiting for so I can make partition my drive as UEFI-NTFS format.

Thank you.

[pbatard]

That's because, as I said, there is very limited commandline support available, and what you seek has not been implemented.

Realistically, I don't expect to implement the feature you are after for at least a year or two, at best, if at all. Sorry.

[pbatard]

This being said, creating an UEFI-NTFS drive from the commandline should be relatively easy if you know what you are doing:

1. Create one large NTFS partition and then a smaller 256KB partition at the end. If using GPT, you should set both partitions to type BASIC_DATA or if MBR, the first one to 0x07 (NTFS) and the second one to 0xef.
2. Format the first partition as NTFS
3. Use dd to copy the uefi-ntfs.img data (256 KB) to the second partition.

That's it.