cow
copy-on-write utility
Install
- All systems
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curl cmd.cat/cow.sh
- Debian
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apt-get install fl-cow - Ubuntu
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apt-get install fl-cow - Kali Linux
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apt-get install fl-cow - Windows (WSL2)
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sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install fl-cow - Raspbian
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apt-get install fl-cow - Dockerfile
- dockerfile.run/cow
fl-cow
copy-on-write utility
Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed. This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption. Fl-cow is an LD_PRELOAD hack, not a kernel patch.