1 .TH "CASPER-SNAPSHOT" 1 "Thu, 28 Sep 2006" "0.0.1" "User commands"
4 casper-snapshot \- a simple script to ease persistence usage.
8 .RB [\| \-c \||\| \-\-cow
10 .RB [\| \-d \||\| \-\-device
12 .RB [\| \-e \||\| \-\-exclude\-list
14 .RB [\| \-o \||\| \-\-output
16 .RB [\| \-t \||\| \-\-type
20 .RB \-r \||\| \-\-resync\-string
24 .RB \-h \||\| \-\-help
27 .RB \-u \||\| \-\-usage
30 .RB \-v \||\| \-\-version
33 Casper-snapshot is a script useful to build the right types of persistent image files supported by casper, it is also used on exit by the casper init script to resync the boot-found snapshots devices.
37 .BI "\-c, \-\-cow" DIRECTORY
38 specifies the input directory to be cloned in the image file.
39 This parameters often does not need to be specified as the default of "/cow" for it should be right for most uses, however it could be handy to specify "/home" and type ext2 for the type to prepare an image file suited to be directly mounted by casper as home.
41 .BI "\-d, \-\-device" DEVICE
42 the device on where the media which the snapshot/persistence file/partition will be put. If not specified a tmpfs will be used and linked on user's desktop to move it where he/her wants. If the device has not a filesystem on it, an ext2 fs will be created in it and labeled like --output options or with a sane default.
44 .BI "\-e, \-\-exclude\-list" FILE
45 you could pass a list of filenames/path that should not be saved. This exclude list will be remebered on the target snapshotting media for reuse.
47 .BI "\-o, \-\-output" FILE
48 the filename/label to be used for the output file/partition, if left blank it could search for a proper file on the device or use the whole partition.
50 .BI "\-r, \-\-resync\-string" STRING
51 internally used on resyncs.
53 .BI "\-t, \-\-type" TYPE
57 Time (and BTS) will tell.
60 Debian Live project <http://live.debian.net/>
66 casper-snapshot was written Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>.
68 This manual page was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>,
69 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).