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authorNeil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>2015-11-04 16:41:17 +0000
committerNeil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>2015-11-04 16:41:17 +0000
commit4ecfee0fcc6d136553d0ead973854f57c14a91bc (patch)
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parent3855370a24530cd0541519b906045c7ccb66c28e (diff)
downloadvmdebootstrap-4ecfee0fcc6d136553d0ead973854f57c14a91bc.tar.gz
Change squashfs behaviour to a tree, not the image.
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@@ -87,10 +87,6 @@ Initial schemes for vmdebootstrap creation of live images
customisation hook, remove that source and replace the original.
#. ``mksquashfs`` can fail without indication of why and when it does, the image
- file can be 4Kb or so of junk. To prevent this, avoid running
- vmdebootstrap with the ``--squash`` option and run mksquashfs as a second step
- **after** copying the raw image to a new file for safety / debugging.
- Newer versions of vmdebootstrap will emit a warning and not delete
- the original file if the squashfs output is less than 1MB. This can
- occur if the drive runs out of space but squashfs does not report
- an error.
+ file can be 4Kb or so of junk. ``vmdebootstrap`` will fail if the
+ squashfs output is less than 1MB. This can occur if the drive runs
+ out of space but squashfs does not report an error.