Advanced users • Re: Image File Utilities

An image file of initial size is created, rsync writes files into it, and then resize2fs shrinks the image file to the smallest size possible.

Seems pointless. How do you create an image of specified size?

If you want free space added after the shrink, specify 'added space for incremental'.

What is the point of specifying a size if it is then ignored?

I don't want to add space. I could of course do a backup, ascertain the arbitrary size then calculate how much I want to add and make a new image.

With a new OS I know how big it is likely to grow. I want to create an image of the expected size. I only need to create new image because the size of boot partition changed.

Statistics: Posted by Milliways — Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:10 am

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