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Mounting Clonezilla images with FUSE

I love to make backups with Clonezilla. But often, I'll back up my system, wipe my Linux partition and try another distro—only to realize that I need access to just one file from the old installation. For example, maybe I made an interesting change to my .zshrc or Samba configuration, which I want to re-use on the new system.

The obvious solutions aren't my favorites. It's easy to restore an image to a spare disk, but it takes a long time, and requires a spare disk I'm willing to wipe. I [could extract an entire image][extract_image], but that also takes lots of time and space. Wouldn't it be nice to just look inside my compressed Clonezilla image, just like I can do with a zip file or squashfs archive?

It turns out it's possible, with clever use of [user-space filesystems][fuse]!

Important

As per the beginning of 2025, Quixel assets are no longer free to claim, so this script is not useful anymore. Comments have been disabled due to this reason.

Note

This script was built for educational purposes. Due to how FAB APIs are built to handle search pagination, all assets might not be claimable through this script. With the last script update, a total of ~600 scanned pages, with ~14k assets. Please note that, by clicking on the "Claim All" quixel button, you'll already have claimed all assets for future free usage, beyond 2024 (official response). This script simply makes sure that assets are added to a library.

Script to add all quixel megascan items to your FAB account

As quixel megascan items will stop being free after 2024. So, this script will go through all Quixel MegaScan items and add them to your account. Quixel would be working on

This is mostly for my own benefit when I invariably format a computer using these adapters and forget how to get wifi working again:

Plug device in and ensure it is detected via lsusb:

For the T3U Plus, the ID is 2357:0138.

A spritestack model is a ZIP file with two obligatory entries:

package.json

{
    "fileType": "SpriteStackModelProject",
    "title": "Whatever"
}

	# as of godot 4.1
	_static_init
	_init
	_notification 20 Node.NOTIFICATION_SCENE_INSTANTIATED # only on instantiated scene roots
	_notification 18 Node.NOTIFICATION_PARENTED
	_enter_tree
	tree_entered signal
	_notification 27 Node.NOTIFICATION_POST_ENTER_TREE
	_ready
	ready signal

	// Copyright (c) 2023 Tomasz Stachowiak
	//
	// This contribution is dual licensed under EITHER OF
	//
	// Apache License, Version 2.0, (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
	// MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
	//
	// at your option.

	#include "/inc/frame_constants.hlsl"

	extends KinematicBody2D

	const ACC_INSTANT = 1000000 # If acceleration time is 0, default to this

	# Exposed movement parameters
	export var move_speed : float
	export var acceleration_time : float # How many seconds does it take to go from 0 to max speed?
	export var air_acceleration_time : float # How many seconds does it take to go from 0 to max speed, when we're midair?
	export var friction_time : float # How many seconds does it take to go from max speed to 0?
	export var jump_height : float # How many pixels vertically should we jump

	insults[]="Abellot";
	insults[]="abraçafanals";
	insults[]="absurd";
	insults[]="abusananos";
	insults[]="abusanenes";
	insults[]="acabacases";
	insults[]="acaparador";
	insults[]="accidiós";
	insults[]="acollonit";
	insults[]="acuseta";

	# MIT licenced. Feel free to use in your project.
	# Use recursion to move along path. We move along path, and if there's any
	# distance remaining, we call this function again and move further along until
	# we reach our destination or there's no distance left to travel
	func move_along_path(distance : float) -> void:
	# Ensure we have an actual path, otherwise we are done and can stop
	# processing
	if path.size() == 0:
	set_process(false)
	return

	# Renew Let's Encrypt Certificates
	/usr/syno/sbin/syno-letsencrypt renew-all

	# Disable Firewall
	/usr/syno/bin/synofirewall --disable