Caetano, Greg wrote:
I would like to manually create a VM sparse file that I can use fdisk to partition then copy a running root partition into the loopback sparse file. How would I manually generate the proper vm sparse file?
A sparse file can be created with dd. # dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=512 bs=1M count=0 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 4.6e-05 seconds, 0.0 kB/s # ls -lah sparse -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512M Apr 8 08:47 sparse Cheers, Dave
