[Unionfs] Loop as a read-write branch

[Josef Sipek]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:40:08PM +0300, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote:
... 
> The suggested scheme is as follows
> 
> $ mount -t ext2 -o loop /home/me/fs.img /mnt/loop $ mount -t unionfs -o
> dirs=/mnt/loop:/=ro union /mnt/union
> 
> where /home/me/fs.img is an empty ext2 image while /mnt and /home belong
> to the root partition. Is the scheme is safe?
> 
> Would such a scheme be safe if /home is a separate partition?

It should work either way.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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I already backed up the box once, I can do it again.