overlay - Man Page
manual page for overlay 77bf3f7
Synopsis
overlay command options
Description
Commands
vacuum - remove duplicated files in upperdir where copy_up is done but the file is not actually modified diff - show the list of actually changed files merge - merge all changes from upperdir to lowerdir, and clear upperdir deref - copy changes from upperdir to a new upperdir unfolding redirect and metacopy
Options
- -l, --lowerdir=LOWERDIR
the lowerdir of OverlayFS (required)
- -u, --upperdir=UPPERDIR
the upperdir of OverlayFS (required)
- -m, --mountdir=MOUNTDIR
the mountdir of OverlayFS (optional)
- -L, --lowernew=LOWERNEW
the lowerdir of new OverlayFS (optional)
- -U, --uppernew=UPPERNEW
the upperdir of new OverlayFS (optional)
- -v, --verbose
with diff action only: when a directory only exists in one version, still list every file of the directory
- -b, --brief
with diff action only: conform to output of diff --brief --recursive --no-dereference
- -h, --help
show this help text
See https://github.com/kmxz/overlayfs-tools/ for warnings and more information.