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[Werner P. Schulz]

The file 'knoppix-data.img' or in case of encryption 'knoppix-data.aes' is always compressed! Have a look at it with midnightcommander.

If you boot Knoppix, it is mounted (and decompressed) via '/dev/loop0' to '/KNOPPIX-DATA'. If you boot with cheatcode "noimage" nothing happens with '..img' or '..aes'

Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
Own Rescue-CD with Knoppix (Knoppix V6.7.1 remaster)

[kl522]

The file 'knoppix-data.img' or in case of encryption 'knoppix-data.aes' is always compressed! Have a look at it with midnightcommander.

If you boot Knoppix, it is mounted (and decompressed) via '/dev/loop0' to '/KNOPPIX-DATA'. If you boot with cheatcode "noimage" nothing happens with '..img' or '..aes'

Sorry to intrude into this discussion. All other things do not interest me, but knoppix-data.img or knoppix-data.aes is always ***UNCOMPRESSED***. I don't use midnightcommander, but if midnightcommander tells you that it is compressed, then throw midnightcommander away ! Knoppix-data.img is just a normal EXT2/3/4 file system, which can mount it yourself using /dev/loop0 and it is read-write. Again, a perfectly usual read/write EXT file system ! There is nothing unusual about knoppix-data.img.

If it is compressed, it is not so easily becoming writable !

[Werner P. Schulz]

Sorry to intrude into this discussion. All other things do not interest me, but knoppix-data.img or knoppix-data.aes is always ***UNCOMPRESSED***.

Thank you for the correction, you are right. (And I thought, nobody else read this thread.)