ch-builder2squash - Man Page

Flatten a builder image into a Charliecloud SquashFS file

Synopsis

$ ch-builder2squash [-b BUILDER] IMAGE OUTDIR [ARGS ...]

Description

WARNING:

This script is deprecated in favor of ch-convert. It will be removed in the next release.

Flattens the builder image tagged IMAGE into a SquashFS file in OUTDIR.

Wrapper for ch-builder2tar --nocompress and ch-tar2sqfs. Intermediate files and directories are removed.

Sudo privileges are required to run docker export.

Optional ARGS passed to mksquashfs unchanged.

Additional arguments:

--help

print help and exit

--version

print version and exit

Example

$ docker image list | fgrep debian
REPOSITORY   TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED      SIZE
debian       stretch   2d337f242f07   3 weeks ago  101MB
$ ch-builder2squash debian /var/tmp
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 6 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /var/tmp/debian.sqfs, block size 131072.
[...]
squashed /var/tmp/debian.sqfs OK
$ ls -lh /var/tmp/debian*
-rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 41M Apr 23 14:37 debian.sqfs

Reporting Bugs

If Charliecloud was obtained from your Linux distribution, use your distribution’s bug reporting procedures.

Otherwise, report bugs to: https://github.com/hpc/charliecloud/issues

See Also

charliecloud(7)

Full documentation at: <https://hpc.github.io/charliecloud>

Referenced By

charliecloud(7).

2023-01-18 00:00 UTC 0.26 Charliecloud