wimlib

I'll add ARM64.

What are some examples of typical alternate system roots? Are they typically at the top level only? I'd like to avoid iterating through all files in the image to find the root.

@bliblubli It may seem like a lot of space, but as a percentage it isn't a lot. There are a few things that can cause a difference of multiple percent, such as confusion between power-of-10 gigabytes and power-of-2 gigabytes, or counting allocated space used on disk versus counting the total file da...

1. When extracting files in NTFS-3g mode, NTFS-3g is responsible for laying out the files. I don't know the details of how it does so. 2. You can't trust minor differences in size statistics because there are many different ways to compute and present them. 3. Those are special Windows folders which...

I attempted to get it working on XP but wasn't able to. I'm not going to bother further since XP is supposed to be dying.

I'll update the documentation and error messages to be more clear that only Vista and later are supported (for snapshot mode).

Currently it only works on Vista and later because Windows XP requires different code to make VSS work.

The latest beta version supports this using VSS snapshots (--snapshot argument to wimcapture and wimappend). This functionality has not yet been widely tested, however.

Hi, In wimlib-1.9.0-BETA3 (I'm renaming 1.8.4 to 1.9.0) I've implemented setting the Windows-specific XML information. The information for an image is automatically set when the image is captured. Not supported yet is updating the information for an existing image; this could be added later, relativ...

I've implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information in wimlib-1.9.0-BETA3. It will automatically fill in this information when capturing a new image. This should address the WDS incompatibility.

1) The doc says wimlib defaults to LZX compression, but in my case, it was uncompressed if I didn't specify the --compress option. This shouldn't happen. Can you share the commands you used? 2) Could you add an option to automatically extract duplicated files as hardlinks (even if they were not in ...

If you keep all images in a single WIM archive, then wimlib will never remove files that are still referenced. If you keep your images in multiple archives and plan to delete old archives manually, then you will need to export the image(s) you want before deleting the old archives.