On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > On 01/05/2019 07:26 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: >> I glanced too quickly at that Montana State page... What I wanted wasn't >> there. >> Look at the 'mount' Man page, specifically the section on "The Loop >> Device": https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount >> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 05:18 Tyrell Jentink <tyr...@jentink.net wrote: >>> [snip] ... This article appears to cover the ins and outs pretty well, >>> although I just glanced over it... >>> >>> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/cs560/VFS/mount.html >>> > > Actually following chains of links from > http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/ is leading in potentially useful > directions. > > As to "[Update]", pondering this thread and my tread about "back up methods" > has lead to a preliminary goal re-specification. > > Partition images may be overkill. It looks like: > /home > /var/cache/apt/archives/ > a yet undefined subset of /usr > will actually be more useful. > > Thanks all. > If Linux supports dump & restore, that might be a viable way to read all the data per-partition, and then you could restore it all to the same destination.
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