On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Congrats on the achievement :D > > Ludovic Courtès, on ven. 01 déc. 2017 14:17:48 +0100, wrote: >> Also, in GRUB, you currently load ext2fs.static and exec explicitly. > > That's the normal way, yes. exec does the rest (including running > startup). > >> BTW, the image you posted is in “raw” format. You would get a smaller >> file by using the qcow2 format, which you can create with “qemu-img >> create -f qcow2”. > > Well, using sparse files can work as well: create the image with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1000
Or you can use truncate from gnu coreutils: $ du -sh file.img 0 file.img vince@dell:~$ ls -l file.img -rw------- 1 vince vince 1073741824 déc. 1 19:43 file.img vince@dell:~$ ls -lh file.img -rw------- 1 vince vince 1,0G déc. 1 19:43 file.img -- Vincent Legoll
