CH-DIR2SQUASH(1)

📦 version 0.26, in ubuntu jammy

💖 CH-DIR2SQUASH(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is ch-dir2squash from the Charliecloud manual (section 1, the user-commands girlies ✨). she's a little script with one job and she does it, but listen — read the warning first, i'm not playing 🙈

🌸 NAME 🌸

ch-dir2squash — make a SquashFS file out of an image directory, that's it, that's the whole personality 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

$ ch-dir2squash IMGDIR OUTDIR [ARGS ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

WARNING: this script is deprecated in favor of ch-convert. it is literally going to be removed in the next release. no cap. go use ch-convert, bestie, i'm begging 🥺

okay so what she does: she takes the image directory IMGDIR and builds a Charliecloud SquashFS file from it, dropping it inside the directory OUTDIR. the file gets named after the last component of IMGDIR, plus the suffix .sqfs. cute, right? consistent. slay. 💖

and the optional ARGS? those get passed straight through to mksquashfs unchanged. like, no edits, no commentary, no notes, just vibes and your arguments, forwarded as-is 🫶

Additional arguments she understands:

  • --help — print help and exit 🎀
  • --version — print version and exit ⭐

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

$ ch-dir2squash /var/tmp/debian /var/tmp
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 6 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /var/tmp/debian.sqfs, block size 131072.
[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 charlie charlie 41M Apr 23 14:41 /var/tmp/debian.sqfs

see how /var/tmp/debian became /var/tmp/debian.sqfs? last component, plus .sqfs. the way that she ate and left no crumbs 👑

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

if you got Charliecloud from your Linux distribution, then please use your distribution's bug reporting procedures. that's their house, their rules, respect it 💜

otherwise, report bugs to: https://github.com/hpc/charliecloud/issues

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

full documentation at: https://hpc.github.io/charliecloud

2014–2021, Triad National Security, LLC

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was version 0.26, dated 2022-01-30 10:06 UTC, and yeah, she's still filed under CH-DIR2SQUASH(1) 🧚 remember: deprecated, use ch-convert, love u bye 💖✨

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