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Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 20 Nov 2006
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NAME

anyfs - filesystem with external inode table.  

SYNOPSIS

mount -t any -o inodetable=file.it[,other_mount_options] device dir

 

DESCRIPTION

anyfs filesystem driver for Linux allows to mount device using inode table information. At mounted filesystem will be allow so file operations as deleting, moving files; making symbolic and hard links, special files; changing file access permissions. All this changes saves on unmounting to the same external inode table file and doesn't affect the device.

BE ATTENTIVE. Don't forget unmount anyfs filesystem before using other utilities of anyfs-tools package. Otherwise with unmounting driver the driver rewrites inode table and all changing made by other utilities will lost.
Incidentally if you still forgot unmount anyfs filesystem, and already have used e.g. reblock, you need, to copy/move new version of inode table to another place, then unmount anyfs, and finally you may again restore new version of inode table at former place.

anyfs driver doesn't print any details if you specified external inode table file with bad format. For more details you can test external inode table file with the next command:
$ reblock -n <inode_table> /dev/null 512

The inode table has correct format if you get message "BLKGETSIZE: Inappropriate ioctl for device".         
 

MOUNT OPTIONS

Besides usual mount options for anyfs mounting it is necessary to specify yet one option
inodetable=file.it
For pointing file of external inode table.

 

USAGE EXAMPLES

Mounts /dev/hda1 to /mnt/hda1 using inode.table:
# mount -t any -o inodetable=inode.table /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Mounts /dev/hda1 as anyfs in read-only mode:
# mount -t any -o ro,inodetable=inode.table /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

 

AUTHOR

Nikolaj Krivchenkov aka unDEFER <undefer@gmail.com>

 

BUG REPORTS

Messages about any problem with using anyfs-tools package send to undefer@gmail.com

 

AVAILABILITY

You can obtain the last version of package at http://anyfs-tools.sourceforge.net

 

SEE ALSO

anyfs-tools(8), anyfuse(8), anyfs_inode_table(5), mount(8)


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
MOUNT OPTIONS
USAGE EXAMPLES
AUTHOR
BUG REPORTS
AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO

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