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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: boot the Hurd with Guix
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:44:49 +0100
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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>, rennes@openmailbox.org, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, bug-hurd@gnu.org

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> w=
rote:
> Hello,
>
> Congrats on the achievement :D
>
> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s, on ven. 01 d=C3=A9c. 2017 14:17:48 +0100, wrote:
>> Also, in GRUB, you currently load ext2fs.static and exec explicitly.
>
> That's the normal way, yes. exec does the rest (including running
> startup).
>
>> BTW, the image you posted is in =E2=80=9Craw=E2=80=9D format.  You would=
 get a smaller
>> file by using the qcow2 format, which you can create with =E2=80=9Cqemu-=
img
>> create -f qcow2=E2=80=9D.
>
> Well, using sparse files can work as well: create the image with
>
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dfile.img bs=3D1M count=3D1 seek=3D1000

Or you can use truncate from gnu coreutils:

$ du -sh file.img
0    file.img
vince@dell:~$ ls -l file.img
-rw------- 1 vince vince 1073741824 d=C3=A9c.  1 19:43 file.img
vince@dell:~$ ls -lh file.img
-rw------- 1 vince vince 1,0G d=C3=A9c.  1 19:43 file.img


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