NAME¶

faum-mergecow - Tool for merging copy-on-write files

SYNOPSIS¶

faum-mergecow media-basefile

DESCRIPTION¶

faum-mergecow lets you merge the changes recorded in the copy-on-write file with the data on the (untouched, because of copy-on-write) original media. This can be useful for testing first with copy-on-write and then finalizing everything by merging the changes back into the original media.

The first parameter is the filename of the original media. The map file and the copy-on-write data will be found by appending .map and .cow. (usually this will be ide-#/unit-#/media in your virtual machine directory).

The second parameter file is the name of the file which will contain the merged data. This file can directly be used as media for virtual machines. Make sure there is enough room on your filesystem for this file!

BUGS¶

Please report all bugs to info@faumachine.org[1].

SEE ALSO¶

faum-node-pc(1)

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by the FAUmachine Team[1].

CONTACT¶

Webpage[2]

Project Team[1]

AUTHOR¶

FAUmachine team

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2000-2009 FAUmachine team. Developed at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

FAUmachine comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. FAUmachine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See COPYING for details.

NOTES¶

1.

info@faumachine.org

2.

Webpage