Yes, you can create a disk image with dd and the partition in with fdisk and format it with mkfs.ext3.
Googling turned up this which seems to be a good example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Arch_Linux_disk_image Ali On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Fernando Endo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > If that's a python limitation, you could try to create an empty file using > the 'dd' command line in unix systems (something like 'dd if=/dev/zero > of=yourimage.img ...'). > > Regards, > > -- > Fernando A. Endo, PhD student and researcher > > Université de Grenoble, UJF > France > > > > 2014-04-29 2:43 GMT+02:00 Hao Wu <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > It seems util/gem5img.py can only create disk images at a maximum of ~8GB. Is > this a built-in limit for gem5? Does anyone know a way to create a large disk > image? > > Thank you for any help! > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
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