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| -rw-r--r-- | src/MAX_PROC_NR | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/generator.ml | 36 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/MAX_PROC_NR b/src/MAX_PROC_NR index c748b568..15c44e93 100644 --- a/src/MAX_PROC_NR +++ b/src/MAX_PROC_NR @@ -1 +1 @@ -147 +149 diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml index 381e0ea7..adcc4ba4 100755 --- a/src/generator.ml +++ b/src/generator.ml @@ -2937,6 +2937,42 @@ This call is similar to C<guestfs_mounts>. That call returns a list of devices. This one returns a hash table (map) of device name to directory where the device is mounted."); + ("mkmountpoint", (RErr, [String "path"]), 148, [], + [], + "create a mountpoint", + "\ +C<guestfs_mkmountpoint> and C<guestfs_rmmountpoint> are +specialized calls that can be used to create extra mountpoints +before mounting the first filesystem. + +These calls are I<only> necessary in some very limited circumstances, +mainly the case where you want to mount a mix of unrelated and/or +read-only filesystems together. + +For example, live CDs often contain a \"Russian doll\" nest of +filesystems, an ISO outer layer, with a squashfs image inside, with +an ext2/3 image inside that. You can unpack this as follows +in guestfish: + + add-ro Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso + run + mkmountpoint /cd + mkmountpoint /squash + mkmountpoint /ext3 + mount /dev/sda /cd + mount-loop /cd/LiveOS/squashfs.img /squash + mount-loop /squash/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /ext3 + +The inner filesystem is now unpacked under the /ext3 mountpoint."); + + ("rmmountpoint", (RErr, [String "path"]), 149, [], + [], + "remove a mountpoint", + "\ +This calls removes a mountpoint that was previously created +with C<guestfs_mkmountpoint>. See C<guestfs_mkmountpoint> +for full details."); + ] let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions |