Yevhen Ts. Hammer2900

Mounting Clonezilla images with FUSE

I love to make backups with Clonezilla. But often, I'll back up my system, wipe my Linux partition and try another distro—only to realize that I need access to just one file from the old installation. For example, maybe I made an interesting change to my .zshrc or Samba configuration, which I want to re-use on the new system.

The obvious solutions aren't my favorites. It's easy to restore an image to a spare disk, but it takes a long time, and requires a spare disk I'm willing to wipe. I [could extract an entire image][extract_image], but that also takes lots of time and space. Wouldn't it be nice to just look inside my compressed Clonezilla image, just like I can do with a zip file or squashfs archive?

It turns out it's possible, with clever use of [user-space filesystems][fuse]!

	~# cat overlay.sh
	#!/bin/sh -e

	modprobe overlay

	mkdir -p /overlay

	mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /overlay

	mkdir -p /overlay/blk

	import Box2D
	import Box2D.b2 as b2


	class b2Separator:

	"""
	* Convex Separator for Box2D Flash
	*
	* This code has been ported to Python by Stephen Tian from the Java port by Chad Palsulich of the Flash original written by Antoan Angelov.

	from threading import Thread
	from pyray import *
	from raylib import *
	from time import sleep


	# control variables
	downloadPressed = False
	uploadPressed = False

	from flask import Flask
	import webview
	import sys
	import threading

	app = Flask(__name__)

	@app.route('/')
	def hello_world():
	return 'Hello World!'

	#!/bin/bash

	# Variables
	OE_USER="odoo"
	OE_HOME="/$OE_USER"
	OE_HOME_EXT="/$OE_USER/${OE_USER}-server"
	INSTALL_WKHTMLTOPDF="True"
	OE_PORT="8069"
	OE_VERSION="15.0"
	OE_SUPERADMIN="admin"

	class StateMachine:
	states = ["NO STATE"]
	user_states = {}
	def __init__(self,states):
	if states:
	self.states.extend(states)
	else:
	raise ValueError("StateMachine must have at least one state")

	def next(self,user_id):

	rm -rf ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/eval
	rm -rf ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	touch ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	sed -i -E 's/<property name=\"evl.\".\/>//' ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	rm -rf ~/.java/.userPrefs/jetbrains/goland

	from dataclasses import dataclass
	from typing import Any, Type

	EntityId = str
	Component = object


	@dataclass
	class StoredSystem:
	variables: dict[str, Any]