Hello Erez, I was trying to merge all branches which is mounted using unionfs , but couldn't find any standard process to achieve this. Using unionfs we can only create unionised view but can we create merged directory (which will contain contents of all branches). I thought i could mount two branches on /merge (See details below) and copy or archive the directory into another directory but not sure is this is correct approach. ?
My only intent is to create merged directory of all branches. Here are the steps i have tried. [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# mkdir /d1 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# mkdir /d2 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# touch /d1/f1 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# touch /d2/f2 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]#mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/d1:/d2=ro none /merge [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# ls /merge/ f1 f2 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# rm /merge/f1 [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# touch /merge/.hide [r...@cogdm52_1 merge]# cd /merge [r...@cogdm52_1 merge]# ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 2 06:52 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Jul 2 06:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 06:46 f2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 06:52 .hide When i Option 1 this command it copies hidden file as well which is right also. *Option 1 ------------------- *[r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# find . | cpio -p /opt/test/ [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# ls -la /opt/test/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 2 07:13 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 2 07:13 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 06:46 f2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 06:52 .hide *Option 2 -------------------* [r...@cogdm52_1 merge]# cp -ax * /opt/test/ [r...@cogdm52_1 ~]# ls -la /opt/test/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 2 07:13 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 2 07:13 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 06:46 f2 Is there any better utility to merge and create one single directory of all branches ? -- Regards Arun Sharma
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