MiniOS Tools

A collection of command-line tools for managing MiniOS live systems and module bundles.

Overview

MiniOS Tools provides utilities for creating, managing, and customizing MiniOS live systems. These tools manage compressed filesystem bundles (.sb modules) and maintain live system configurations.

Tools

System Building

• apt2sb - Install packages from repositories and package them into modules
• script2sb - Package modules from changes made by installation scripts
• chroot2sb - Package modules using chroot environment

Module Management

• sb - Activate, deactivate, and manage MiniOS bundles
• dir2sb - Convert directories to compressed .sb modules
• sb2dir - Extract .sb modules to directories
• rmsbdir - Refuse the retired unsafe module-directory removal operation
• savechanges - Save runtime changes to compressed bundles
• minios-squashfs-save - Atomically save the running SquashFS persistence snapshot; MiniOS core uses the bundled shutdown helper to invoke the same backend at poweroff

Installation

These tools are typically included with MiniOS distributions. For manual installation:

make install

Usage

Each tool includes built-in help:

dir2sb --help
apt2sb --help
# etc.

For detailed documentation, see the individual manual pages in the doc/ directory.

Language Support

Translations are provided for the command-line messages that use the localization layer:

• English (en_US)
• Russian (ru_RU)
• German (de_DE)
• Spanish (es_ES)
• Italian (it_IT)
• Indonesian (id_ID)
• Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR)
• Portuguese Portugal (pt_PT)
• French (fr_FR)

Requirements

• Linux system with squashfs-tools
• Root privileges for most operations
• AUFS/OverlayFS support for some bundle operations

License

Distributed under the same license as MiniOS Linux.

Support

For issues and questions, visit: https://github.com/minios-linux/minios-live