the problem with putting it on the drive is as it builds the file, sooner or later, it hits the file itself...now you're in an endless loop. tar has the same issue. On Thursday 10 November 2005 08:46, Daniel Crandall wrote: > Ah I didn't know about not being able to put the file on the hard drive > that is the source. I'm not intending to do that, but I had made an > image of a node system , was trying to test the image file while it was > still on the node. That was not working, and now I know why. Thanks! > > I wonder if I can use a file system utility to shrink the image file > down to the size of just he data? > > John Jolet wrote: > >On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:02, Daniel Crandall wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Due to the fact that OSCAR uses a version of SIS in which si_getimage > >>does not work properly, I'm looking at other ways to generate an image > >>from a golden client. > >>I had an idea to used dd to create a .img file from the system disk on > >>my golden client, then move that image to my image server and loop mount > >>it on /var/lib/systemimager/node-image. This seems like it would make a > >>nice replica of my client system that SIS could then push out to other > >>nodes. > >> > >>Does anybody have any opinions on why this would or would not work? > > > >you might run into ulimit issues creating a file the size of your hard > >drive...you CANNOT put that file on the hard drive that's the source...you > >could pipe it to another system across the network. Remember, dd will > > also grab empty space....your 36 gig hard drive will produce a 36 gig > > file. > > > >>Thanks, > >>Dan
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