Re: LNX-BBC (was Re: emergency shutdown?)
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On Thursday 03 January 2002 04:30 am, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:30PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> | (and the compressed loopback filesystem means I can't see what's
> | actually there).
>
> Couldn't you use dd to dump it to a file, then uncompress it and mount
> it?
Nah, they use one of them new fangled compressed loop (cloop) filesystems.
It's not your ordinary gzipped ramdisk image. (Block level compression, they
include a cloop.o module on the disk to be able to mount it when the disk
boots.)
I agree with earlier posts, LNX-BBC is a great rescue system. Everyone in
our user group has one.
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