Exclude file formats and paths

[Retengart]

I read documentation for mkdwarfs, but a feeling tells me that I have not found a way to exclude certain types of files (or paths) from the source directory while creating dwarfs image. Any ideas?
For example, I want "to dwarfs" the root ( '/') and exclude /home directory

[mhx]

I read documentation for mkdwarfs, but a feeling tells me that I have not found a way to exclude certain types of files (or paths) from the source directory while creating dwarfs image. Any ideas?

This should be doable using filter rules. Did you see this when browsing the mkdwarfs docs? Did you see the Filter options section in the help output?

$ mkdwarfs -H
[...]
Filter options:
  -F [ --filter ] arg                   add filter rule
  --debug-filter [=arg(=all)]           show effect of filter rules without 
                                        producing an image (all, excluded, 
                                        excluded-files, files, included, 
                                        included-files)
  --remove-empty-dirs                   remove empty directories in file system

I'm genuinely curious why you failed to find that information. Which keywords would have helped you to find it? The documentation explicitly mentions both include and exclude, for example. Happy to improve the docs to make stuff like this easier to find!

For example, I want "to dwarfs" the root ( '/') and exclude /home directory

That should be easy:

$ mkdwarfs -i / -o /home/root.dwarfs -F '- /home/'

Let me know if that helps!

[Retengart]

Thank you! I'm sorry for any inconvenience with this obviously trivial question. Surprisingly, when I searched the web page with "Ctrl + F" yesterday, the keywords "exclude" and "include" did not appear (maybe I got another accidental browser bug)