T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I create an image file system that can grow bigger as required?
>
> Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an image file which
> is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do that too,
> but
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 b
Kevin Ross:
>
> ke...@htpc:~$ dd bs=1 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=5GB
-- snip
> ke...@htpc:~$ /sbin/mke2fs sparse
-- snip
> The filesystem has 4.4 GB available to it, but it's currently only taking up
> 77 MB of disk space.
Neat! Thanks for sharing that.
J.
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On Sunday 26 July 2009 7:44:43 pm T o n g wrote:
> Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an image file which
> is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do that too,
Have you seen [1]? I haven't used it, but it looks like it will do exactly
what you want.
[1] htt
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I create an image file system that can grow bigger as
> > required?
> >
> > Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an
> > image file which
> > is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do
> > that too,
> > but
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero
> Hi,
>
> How can I create an image file system that can grow bigger as
> required?
>
> Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an
> image file which
> is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do
> that too,
> but
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 bs=1k c
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