Questions tagged [disk-image]
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Enlarge a filesystem image
I was doing dpkg --configure -a in my Debian wheezy.
And got this error:
dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: failed to write status record about `libcairo2' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
I am chrooted into a .img file. What can I do?
JohnnyBoy
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How to build large file system images, preferable without root access
The task: take a directory tree with 100's of Mb up to several Gb of stuff, with many files, and a fair amount number of symlinks. Produce a file that is an image of a mountable file system for use as an AWS volume snapshot. If at all possible,…
bmargulies
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Create a disk image of a dualboot system with dd
I would like to create a disk image of a dual boot system (Ubuntu, Windows 11).
Ubuntu is on /dev/sda1 and Windows 11 on /dev/sdb1
How can I accomplish the task with the dd command?
I tried sudo dd if=/dev/sda if=/dev/sdb of=dualboot.img bs=64K…
kzpm
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Fastest way to create a filesystem image with cloop/create_compressed_fs
Cloop is a linux software package to mount compressed block device images. create_compressed_fs is the accompanying tool to create a compressed image of a filesystem (or any kind of file or block device). What is the fastest way to create a…
JanKanis
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What can an image file be created to mirror?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/278966/674
An image file is a copy of the data on a block device, in the form of a file (on another filesystem). Image files can have any extension; .img is common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image
A disk…
Tim
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