muellerr1

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Posted: April 26 2005,18:33 |
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I did this, then mounted the new file in loopback (sudo mount -o loop new_harddisk /mnt/test), then copied my files over from the current harddisk in /mnt/hdb. I had been making files with dd forever and not getting them to mount until I discovered that I was missing the 'mke2fs new_harddisk' part.
Another thing to remember is that there is a certain amount of overhead involved when you format the file; my 160 MB harddisk file really has more like 154 MB usable because some gets eaten by the formatting. I used a 1K block size. Is that why?
Instead of dd, qemu-img.exe will create a new harddisk file for you in windows (look at the qemu docs to see how) but it won't format it. I needed linux for that.
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