SYNOPSIS

       create_compressed_fs image blocksize  [> image.cloop_compressed]

       extract_compressed_fs filename

DESCRIPTION

       create_compressed_fs compresses a  filesystem  image  to  a  compressed
       image  suitable for mounting with the cloop driver. blocksize must be a
       multiple of 512  bytes. Make sure you have  enough  swap  to  hold  the
       entire  compressed image in virtual memory! Use "-" as filename to read
       data from stdin, as in:

       mkisofs -r datadir | create_compressed_fs -  65536  >  datadir.iso.com-
       pressed

MOUNTING

       You have to pass the options to the cloop module on loading:

       insmod cloop.o file=/path/to/compressed/image

       mount -o ro -t whatever /dev/cloop /mnt/compressed

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/cloop-utils/*, /usr/share/doc/cloop-src/*

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch (blade@debian.org) for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used  by  others).   Permission  is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
       of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version
       published  by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
       no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.



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