VIEW-OS(1)

VIEW-OS(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the View-OS corner of the manual pages 🎀 this one's a General Commands Manual entry, and it's about the tiniest, cutest little utility that does one thing and does it flawlessly.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

um_fsalias — define a file system type alias 💅

like... it gives your file system types nicknames. that's the whole job. and honestly? iconic.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

um_fsalias fsalias [ full_filesystem_type ]

so you call it with an alias name, and optionally the full filesystem type. yes the brackets matter, no you can't skip the reading, bestie 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕ this command is how you define a short alias for a fully qualified view-os file system type. because typing the whole long name every single time? not the vibe. we don't do that here.

for example:

um_fsalias ext2 umfuseext2

this defines ext2 as a short alias for umfuseext2. and then — this is the slay part — ext2 can be used in a mount command instead of the full name umfuseext2. no cap. it just works like that. 🔥

now, important lore 👑: further definitions of the same alias re-define the alias by overwriting previous mappings. so yeah, if you define it again, the old one is <em>gone</em> gone. it's giving "replacement, not addition." 💀

and if you omit full_filesystem_type entirely? then the command deletes any previous definition of the alias. poof. bye bye mapping. 🙈

fr fr, the omission is the delete. that's not a typo, that's the whole mechanic. don't come for me.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• umview(1)
• kmview(1)

go read those too, bestie, they're part of the lore 📚✨

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

View-OS is a project of the Computer Science Department, University of Bologna. Project Leader: Renzo Davoli. 🎓

<http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/view-os> 🌐

Howto's and further information can be found on the project wiki <wiki.virtualsquare.org>. 🧚

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and that's the whole page, babes 💖 this was VIEW-OS: a process with a view, dated May 30, 2009, and it ate, no crumbs. periodt. 💅✨