Re: [Dump-users] Deleting files from dump?

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:29 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
<st...@po...> wrote:

> If the question is whether it is possible to exclude a file in order to
> not be picked by later dump, the answer is yes, either by using -e
> command line flag or by setting the nodump flag on the file.

I figured a clever pipeline could write a new dump file with the file from 
the old one excluded. Can one feed the output of restore into dump to 
create a new dump file?

On a related note, it would be cool if one could mount a dump file 
read-only, much in the way one can mount an ISO9660 image. If the result 
could be operated on using the same ext3 library used by dump, that could 
be a way to accomplish this.