Re: Fwd: how to create a block devie?

[Liu Jaloo]

thanks Kevin for reply.

I want to create a slackware usb-installer disk, with usbimg2disk.sh

I create a disk with command:

$ qemu-img create slackware64-current-udisk.img 8G

then in slackware source directory:

$ sudo ./usbimg2disk.sh -i usbboot.img -o slackware64-current-udisk.img

report error like this:

*** Not a block device: '/home/jaloo/qemu/slackware64-current/slackware64-current-udisk.img' !

in usbimg2disk.sh

  # Sanity checks:
  if [ ! -b $TOWIPE ]; then
    echo "*** Not a block device: '$TOWIPE' !"
    exit 1
  fi

so my question is how to create a block device for Bash Conditional _expression_:

   if -b

-b file

True if file exists and is a block special file.

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 09.11.2019 um 10:05 hat Liu Jaloo geschrieben:
> block device for bash Bash Conditional Expressions
> if -b
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Liu Jaloo <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 4:46 PM
> Subject: how to create a block devie?
> To: <address@hidden>
>
>
> i want to emulate a USB disk for install operation system, how to create a
> block device using qemu-img to work with dd command.

You don't need to write an image to a block device on the host for
emulating a USB disk in QEMU. Just use the image file directly.

Kevin