Introduction
The latest Synology pat files cannot be extracted using the tar command anymore and require special handling.
Based on https://github.com/pocopico/tinycore-redpill.
How to use
Git clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/technorabilia/syno-extract-system-patch.git
Build the image.
cd syno-extract-system-patch
sudo docker build --tag syno-extract-system-patch .
Place the pat file you want to extract in ~/data/in.
$ ls ~/data/in
DSM_DS723+_42962.pat
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Execute the following command.
sudo docker run --rm -v ~/data:/data syno-extract-system-patch \
/data/in/DSM_DS723+_42962.pat \
/data/out/.
The extracted pat file will be in ~/data/out.
$ ls ~/data/out
bios.ROM grub_cksum.syno indexdb.txz rd.gz updater
checksum.syno GRUB_VER model.dtb synohdpack_img.txz VERSION
DiskCompatibilityDB.tar H2OFFT-Lx64 packages Synology.sig zImage
expired_models hda1.tgz platform.ini texts
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