[TriLUG] non-root partial view of file?

[Alan Porter]

You need "fakeroot". It's a shell that lets you lie to it about file ownerships and permissions, and it repeats your lies back to you later. It's surprisingly useful for building images. I used it at "the oven place" (TMIO) for making filesystem images as an unprivileged user.

- alan



> If I were so inclined, I /could/ write a string of 0's and 1's to a file, which just so happened to match the output of creating a disk image through more conventional tools.