NAME

       uml_moo — merge a COW file with its backing file

SYNOPSIS

       uml_moo [COW file]  [new_backing_file]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_moo command.

       This  manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
       have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.

       uml_moo is a program to merge a COW (copy-on-write) file with its backing file, and write the result to a
       new backing file.  This can be used periodically to update the backing file with the changes made in  the
       COW file.

       NOTE:  you can save a lot of disk space using COW files.  When checking the size of the COW file in order
       to see the gobs of space that you're saving,  make  sure  you  use  'ls  -ls'  to  see  the  actual  disk
       consumption  rather  than  the  length  of  the  file. The COW file is sparse, so the length will be very
       different from the disk usage.

SEE ALSO

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_moo was written by RidgeRun,Inc glonnon@ridgerun.com

       This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system,  based  on
       material in the UserModeLinux-HOWTO by Rusty Russell.

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