Re: ext2 creator
Nate Riffe <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.bbc.devel |
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Just now Niall O Broin made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> Am I missing something here ? Surely this is trivial as
>
> #!/bin/sh
> FILE=$1
> SOURCE=$2
> MOUNT=/tmp/root.bin.$$
> SIZE=$(du -s $SOURCE|awk '{print $1}')
> #
> # make a big enough empty file, put a filesystem on it, and copy files to it
> #
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$FILE bs=1k count=$SIZE
> ls -l $FILE
> mke2fs -m 0 -F $FILE
> mkdir $MOUNT
> mount -o loop $FILE $MOUNT
> cd $SOURCE
> cp -a . $MOUNT
> umount $MOUNT
> rmdir $MOUNT
You are missing something trivial. It must not require superuser
privileges.
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