diff --git a/create-changelog-to-go-from-old-to-new.sh b/create-changelog-to-go-from-old-to-new.sh
index 6e5a891..3a90597 100755
--- a/create-changelog-to-go-from-old-to-new.sh
+++ b/create-changelog-to-go-from-old-to-new.sh
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ echo "List of changes necessary to go from old image contents to new: "
 rsync -a -x --human-readable --delete-after --checksum --dry-run --itemize-changes --exclude .docker-image-diff "$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/" "rsync://rsync@old/root$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/" | tee $OUT/changes.rsync.log
 
 # Add files to add to a tar archive
-cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep '^<f' | while read -a cols; do echo "$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/"${cols[@]:1}; done > $OUT/files-to-add.list
-tar -cf $OUT/files-to-add.tar -T $OUT/files-to-add.list 2>&1 | grep -v  "Removing leading"
+cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep  -E '^<f|^cL|^hf' | while read -a cols; do echo "$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/"${cols[@]:1}; done > $OUT/files-to-add_2.list
+
+# soft links (^cL in the grep above) have -> in the list which must be removed.  Hard links ^hf have =>
+cat $OUT/files-to-add_2.list | grep -oP '^\K.*?(?= ->| =>|$)' > $OUT/files-to-add.list
+tar -C / -cf $OUT/files-to-add.tar -T $OUT/files-to-add.list 2>&1
 
 # Add files to remove to a list
-cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep '^*deleting' | while read -a cols; do echo "$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/"${cols[@]:1}; done > $OUT/files-to-remove.list
+cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep '^*deleting' | grep -v 'tmp\/\.rsyncd\.conf' | while read -a cols; do echo "$RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH/"${cols[@]:1}; done > $OUT/files-to-remove.list
 
 # Informational output
 echo
@@ -20,6 +23,6 @@ echo "Number of files to remove: "
 wc $OUT/files-to-remove.list
 echo
 echo "Changes not accounted for: "
-cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep -v '^<f' | grep -v '^*deleting'
+cat $OUT/changes.rsync.log | grep -v -E '^<f|^cL|^hf'  | grep -v '^*deleting'
 echo
 echo "Press CTRL-C to continue"
diff --git a/expose-filesystem-root.sh b/expose-filesystem-root.sh
index 9c70bb7..7bbcfc2 100755
--- a/expose-filesystem-root.sh
+++ b/expose-filesystem-root.sh
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@
 echo "[root]" > /tmp/.rsyncd.conf;
 echo "path = /" >> /tmp/.rsyncd.conf;
 echo "read only = false" >> /tmp/.rsyncd.conf;
+echo "uid = 0" >> /tmp/.rsyncd.conf;
+echo "gid = 0" >> /tmp/.rsyncd.conf;
+
 rsync --daemon --port 873 --no-detach -vv --config /tmp/.rsyncd.conf
diff --git a/shrink_images.sh b/shrink_images.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..efcf2b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shrink_images.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+echo "Usage shrink_images.sh <old_image> <new_image> <resultant_image> [RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH]"
+export RESTRICT_DIFF_TO_PATH=$4
+export OLD_IMAGE=$1
+export NEW_IMAGE=$2
+docker-compose -f rsync-image-diff.docker-compose.yml up
+docker-compose -f shell.docker-compose.yml -f process-image-diff.docker-compose.yml run --rm shell ./generate-dockerfile.sh
+cd output; docker build -t $3 .; cd ..
diff --git a/template.Dockerfile b/template.Dockerfile
index 801e2d8..57bcd03 100644
--- a/template.Dockerfile
+++ b/template.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 FROM ${OLD_IMAGE}
 ADD files-to-add.tar /
 ADD files-to-remove.list /.files-to-remove.list
-RUN if [ -s /.files-to-remove.list ]; then xargs -d '\n' -a /.files-to-remove.list rm && rm /.files-to-remove.list; fi
+RUN if [ -s /.files-to-remove.list ]; then xargs -d '\n' -a /.files-to-remove.list rm; fi; rm /.files-to-remove.list;