Create .img of a directory

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ktckd9 Joined: Mar 14, 2008 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted Apr 15, 2008 at 6:14:27 PM Subject: Create .img of a directory I have a directory say for example /tmp/stuff, and I want to create an .img (stuff.img) file of this stuff directory. Can some one please help me to achieve this? Thanks
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tophandcwby Joined Apr 10, 2008 Posts: 81 Other Topics	Posted: Apr 15, 2008 6:31:45 PM Subject: Create .img of a directory There are short cuts to this, but this is how I'd do it. #make sure the loop driver is installed modprobe loop #determine the amount of memory space I need cd dir_of_interest du cd dd if=/dev/zero of=new_img bs=1024 count=#kilobytes needed losetup /dev/loop0 new_img mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 /mnt cp -a dir_of_interest /mnt/ umount /mnt losetup -d /dev/loop0 Now you have the img of dir_of_interest.
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