creating_sample_image.md

Creating a sample disk image for testing

Note

This guide does only work on Linux systems.

1. Creating a bare image using dd

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1M count=10

• /dev/zero is a dummy device which only returns zeroes
• of=disk.img is the name of the resulting image file
• bs=1M the blocksize (set to 1Megabyte)
• count=10 Number of blocks (here 10) resulting in 10MB of space.

2. Formatting the image with FAT

sudo mkfs.vfat disk.img

This should format your raw image into the FAT file format.

Note

If you have trouble generating your own .img file, you can also try and use the sample image included here.