'dd' is a very inefficient way to create files. 'truncate' is
better, but unfortunately that command is not available in RHEL 5.
So use the guestfish 'sparse' command instead (which also avoids
allocating disk space).
set -e
rm -f test1.img
-dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.img bs=1024k count=10
-../fish/guestfish -a test1.img <<EOF
+../fish/guestfish <<EOF
+sparse test1.img 10M
launch
part-disk /dev/sda mbr
mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1
set -e
rm -f test1.img
-dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.img bs=1024k count=10
-../fish/guestfish -a test1.img <<EOF
+../fish/guestfish <<EOF
+sparse test1.img 10M
run
part-disk /dev/sda mbr
mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1
set -e
rm -f test1.img
-dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.img bs=1024k count=500
n=10
if [ -n "$1" ]; then n=$1; fi
for i in $(seq 1 $n); do
echo Test boot $i of $n ...
- ../fish/guestfish -a test1.img run
+ ../fish/guestfish sparse test1.img 500M : run
done
rm test1.img