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Mount / Unmount a Virtualbox vdi image in linux
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mount_vdi.sh
# Mount command
sleep 1; modprobe nbd
sleep 1; qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 /path/to/image.vdi
sleep 1; mount /dev/nbd0p1 ~/u
# Below command to compress the entire mounted dir tree into a squafs filesystem
# mksquashfs u/ /path/to/image.squashfs -no-recovery -wildcards -e 'var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb' -e "home/user/Downloads/*" -e home/user/.cache -e home/user/.config/chromium
# Unmount command
# sleep 1; umount ~/u
# sleep 1; qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
# sleep 1; modprobe -r nbd
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