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From: "Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] file system can be writed ?
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Hi...

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, b93049 <b93049@csie.ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>  Is QEMU could produce a file system image that could be written?
>  If yes, what should I do ???

Qemu doesn't deal directly with filesystem. Via qemu-img, the only
thing you can do is create empty disk image (be it raw type, cow, qcow
and so on).

To format it, loopback mount the disk image and use mkfs to format.

regards,

Mulyadi.