Sean Craig - Snr Solutions Consultant - enigmatis wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can mount the image using the loopback device, but I want to add and 
> remove (mostly remove) files from the image.  Would it be safe to 
> mount the image as read-write to make these changes?  Would the image 
> file be resized at umount?
>
Adding the files would be fine to the image and the image grows larger 
if it is mounted read-write. If you delete files the sizes "probably" 
won't get reduced. Well, i do this to get a rootfs on embedded systems. 
The size does not decrement when you delete files in that scenario.


MA



 
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