xenial (1) uml_moo.1.gz

NAME

       uml_moo — merge a COW file with its backing file

SYNOPSIS

       uml_moo [COW file]  [new_backing_file]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_moo command.

       This  manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
       have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.

       uml_moo is a program to merge a COW (copy-on-write) file with its backing file, and write the result to a
       new  backing file.  This can be used periodically to update the backing file with the changes made in the
       COW file.

       NOTE: you can save a lot of disk space using COW files.  When checking the size of the COW file in  order
       to  see  the  gobs  of  space  that  you're  saving,  make  sure  you use 'ls -ls' to see the actual disk
       consumption rather than the length of the file. The COW file is  sparse,  so  the  length  will  be  very
       different from the disk usage.

SEE ALSO

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_moo was written by RidgeRun,Inc glonnon@ridgerun.com

       This  manual  page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system, based on
       material in the UserModeLinux-HOWTO by Rusty Russell.

                                                                                                      UML_MOO(1)