[one-users] How to create the disk images

[Rodrigue CHAKODE]

Hi Ettore,
I have effectively found that I had not sufficient space on my filesystem.
Thank for your suggestion, I freed space and all is going well now.
Regards
--
Rodrigue

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Ettore Enrico Delfino Ligorio <
ettoreusp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please, take a look at
>
>
> http://lists.opennebula.org/pipermail/users-opennebula.org/2009-November/001111.html
>
> Have you tried to prepare the image?
>
> dd   if=/dev/zero   of=/home/disk.img    bs=4096  count=3000111
>
> mke2fs -j /home/disk.img
>
> mount -t ext3 -o loop /home/disk.img  /mnt/disk_mount
>
> Did you have available space in your filesystem?
>
> Best Regards.
> --
> Ettore Enrico Delfino Ligorio
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Rodrigue CHAKODE
> <Rodrigue.Chakode at imag.fr> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a beginner with opennebula:
> > I read in the documentation that the disks declaration is a something
> like the following:
> >
> > DISK = [
> >  source   = "/local/xen/domains/etch/disk.img",
> >  target   = "sda",
> >  readonly = "no" ]
> >
> > Secondly, I seen that we have 3 possibilities to declare the disks into
> xen:
> >  1) Exporting Physical Devices as VBDs
> >  2) Using File-backed VBDs (from dd for example)
> >  3) Using LVM-backed VBDs
> >
> > I dont know if I'm right, but I think that the declaration with
> opennebula is like with the option 2.
> > My problem is when I try to create a disk image with dd, I'm not able to
> create a large image with about 8GB for example (dd fail because the file is
> to large).
> >
> > Can anyone can help me.
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Rodrigue
> >
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>
>


-- 
Rodrigue CHAKODE
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