Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 1:4.0-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/mksquashfs
I wish I could back up an active root filesystem like this:
mksquashfs --just-one-filesystem / /dev/sda2
AFAICT the nearest approximation at present is to
1) specify a lot of --excludes. This breaks if someone creates
new mounts and forgets to extend the list of exclusions -- for
example, if another sysadmin decides named should be chrooted,
and in the process mounts proc on /var/named/chroot/proc; or
2) run mksquashfs on a mounted read-only snapshot of the target
filesystem. This works, but only if LVM is already in use.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages squashfs-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
squashfs-tools recommends no packages.
squashfs-tools suggests no packages.
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