From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Create ext2 filesystem from a directory
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:44:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190220004416.GA31238@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190219080333.GA2912@redhat.com>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:03:33AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> This might interest/disgust/shock/scare(?!) people on this list:
>
> $ time ./nbdkit --filter=partition -U - linuxdisk . partition=1 --run 'qemu-img convert $nbd /var/tmp/ext2fs.img'
>
For those of us who aren't really familiar with nbdkit, what does this do?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-20 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-19 8:03 Create ext2 filesystem from a directory Richard W.M. Jones
2019-02-20 0:44 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-02-20 0:55 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2019-02-20 6:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-20 7:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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