On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 10:10:05 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ... > But you could create a small ext filesystem in a file, mount it and make > experiments with it.
oh, that's an excellent suggestion. thanks. will do that in the coming days. > > the "machine" is a VM, pre-installed by Google, and it has more mounts > > than dog has fleas :-) (but '/' says is on btrfs) > I know that flea effect from ZFS on Solaris. It makes the mount command > nearly unusable for information gathering. </nod> On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 12:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Since none of us can reproduce your archive, only you are in a position > to test that. Doing it in a subdirectory of /tmp or /var/tmp ought to > be harmless enough. You can just nuke that subdirectory when you're > done with it. should be safe enough, agree. (and could then copy from tmpfs type fs to the partition with /home. decided to go with Tomas' idea. thanks)
