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If you're building disk images with blank space in them (say, for an 8GB EMMC, but your root is only 2GB) you may want to use bmap-tools [1] [2] This way only
by voltagex_ 10y ago
If you're building disk images with blank space in them (say, for an 8GB EMMC, but your root is only 2GB) you may want to use bmap-tools [1] [2]
This way only actual data is written to the device, blocks of zeros can be skipped.
1: https://lwn.net/Articles/563355/ https://lwn.net/Articles/563355/
2: https://github.com/01org/bmap-tools https://github.com/01org/bmap-tools