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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