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9 overlay command options
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12 Commands:
13 vacuum - remove duplicated files in upperdir where copy_up is
14 done but the file is not actually modified diff - show the
15 list of actually changed files merge - merge all changes from
16 upperdir to lowerdir, and clear upperdir deref - copy changes
17 from upperdir to a new upperdir unfolding redirect and metacopy
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20 -l, --lowerdir=LOWERDIR
21 the lowerdir of OverlayFS (required)
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23 -u, --upperdir=UPPERDIR
24 the upperdir of OverlayFS (required)
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26 -m, --mountdir=MOUNTDIR
27 the mountdir of OverlayFS (optional)
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29 -L, --lowernew=LOWERNEW
30 the lowerdir of new OverlayFS (optional)
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33 the upperdir of new OverlayFS (optional)
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36 with diff action only: when a directory only exists in one ver‐
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40 with diff action only: conform to output of diff --brief --re‐
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44 show this help text
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46 See https://github.com/kmxz/overlayfs-tools/ for warnings and more in‐
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