debian man page for uml_moo

UML_MOO(1)						      General Commands Manual							UML_MOO(1)

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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