From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu disk on vfat
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:23:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445FC4ED.6090508@blenke.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147218062.9211.2.camel@localhost>
Yann Le Doaré wrote:
>You are right ! :
>
>sh-2.05b# qemu-img create /mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk 4M
>Formating '/mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk', fmt=raw, size=4096 kB
>sh-2.05b# ls -al /mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-05-09
>23:37 /mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk
>sh-2.05b# qemu-img create /mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk 40M
>Formating '/mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk', fmt=raw, size=40960 kB
>sh-2.05b# ls -al /mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-05-09
>23:38 /mnt/partitions/windows0
>
>
FAT filesystems don't do sparse files (files with "holes" in them).
The qemu-img "raw" option attempts to create sparse disk images.
Create the image on a filesystem that does support sparse files and then
_copy_ those sparse files to a FAT filesystem and they'll work just fine.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 10:04 [Qemu-devel] qemu disk on vfat Yann Le Doaré
2006-05-07 8:44 ` André Braga
2006-05-08 10:41 ` Yann Le Doaré
2006-05-07 15:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex
2006-05-07 11:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " NyOS
2006-05-07 13:47 ` Jernej Simončič
2006-05-08 19:44 ` Yann Le Doaré
2006-05-08 14:57 ` Jan Marten Simons
2006-05-09 21:05 ` Yann Le Doaré
2006-05-07 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 21:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2006-05-09 23:41 ` Yann Le Doaré
2006-05-08 22:05 ` Michael McConnell
2006-05-08 22:48 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 23:10 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 23:50 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-09 1:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-05-09 2:11 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-16 17:21 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 22:23 ` Ian C. Blenke [this message]
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