On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:58:50AM +1100, Tony Lewis wrote:
> With reckless abandon, I vhashified a couple of vserver Ubuntu guests
> with no exclusions. Now I find that upgrading is a problem. These
> vservers are just for fun, so no harm done, but I'm curious as to the
> best way to unhashify, should a mistake be made.
>
> Would it be:
>
> for each file in /vservers/.hash
> for all files in /vservers/* (except /vservers/.hash) with the same
> inode
> cp the file, preserving username, perms, timestamp, to a temp file
> rm the file
> mv the copied file to the original file
> remove the file in /vservers/.hash
>
> Or is there a more elegant way?
something like this (untested) should do the trick:
find /vservers/guest -type f -exec showattr {} \; | gawk '/^----UI-/ { printf "cp -a %s %s.unhash\nmv %s.unhash %s\n",$2,$2,$2,$2; }' | sh
it will break unified files but leave 'normal' hardlinks
as is, probably not a big deal in your case ...
best,
Herbert
> Tony
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