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cloop for Debian |
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What is cloop? It is a simple way to compress a real filesystem and mount it |
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per loopback, so you can access all the data on-the-fly. |
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Before starting, you will need to build the filesystem module and load it into |
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the running kernel. Please read the create_compressed_fs(1) manpage about how |
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to create a compressed filesystem volume and how to mount it. I recommend to |
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build proper Debian modules while compiling a new kernel, or install the |
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kernel-headers-2.4.x-Y package for your kernel and continue as described below. |
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To build the cloop modules package you better use make-kpkg. To install, |
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extract the tarbal in /usr/src, and create the modules package with make-kpkg. |
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Then install with dpkg. |
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$ cd /usr/src |
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$ tar zxvf cloop.tar.gz |
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If you have kernel source for your kernel installed, then do: |
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$ cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.X |
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$ make-kpkg modules_image |
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$ ls -ltra .. |
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$ dpkg -i ../<NEW CREATED PACKAGE> |
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If the source is not installed, and wish to go with the kernel-headers package, |
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then do: |
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$ apt-get install debhelper make gcc kernel-headers-VERSION |
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where VERSION must match exactly the version of your kernel, ie. 2.4.16-k7 |
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$ cd /usr/src/modules/cloop |
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$ debian/binary KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-VERSION KVERS=VERSION kdist_image |
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$ dpkg -i /usr/src/<NEW CREATED PACKAGE> |
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If you are a Debian maintainer and going to package official modules package, |
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use another command line: |
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$ debian/binary kdist KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-VERSION KVERS=VERSION KDREV=2.4.xy-1 |
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Also set KEMAIL, KMAINT and/or DEBFULLNAME and GNUPGHOME as necessary. |
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-- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:22:28 +0100 |
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