Re: [uml-user] sparse files as root images

2011-12-06 Thread rouvas
richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM, wrote: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUTFS bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((20*1024*1024-1)) > > Does it work if the filesystem is not sparse? After all, it doesn't seem this to be the problem. Today I started from scratch in a different

Re: [uml-user] sparse files as root images

2011-12-06 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
Hi, On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM, wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUTFS bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((20*1024*1024-1)) Does it work if the filesystem is not sparse? > but I'm having kernel panics (not syncing) whenever I try to run various > commands inside UML. Please post the complete panic. > So

[uml-user] sparse files as root images

2011-12-05 Thread rouvas
Hi List, I'm trying to create a root image. So far I'm creating the underlying file as a sparse file with: dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUTFS bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((20*1024*1024-1)) but I'm having kernel panics (not syncing) whenever I try to run various commands inside UML. So far I got kernel panics