From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 17:42:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08EDE106564A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:42:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985368FC13 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so861411wgb.31 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:42:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=WwY+DxiuLHdOyUXJa6Pq5JK6G3376gU17ROwD1vr4yk=; b=fRUKM6mWMXiI/7zaO629IFlFX9piU8uun3SX65tC7qJU0kotwm+N0zdFBseWjCcIEM 8Gbl9NMDB3eo8minj/jXfzBZH0MzvpWBYudYVdq7rFgo9ht2VZzG1D/8G4TVIEPotJFl b33W6CprPYNlzXggtvUn6L1I6cOxBuR9sg7zY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.88.97 with SMTP id bf1mr1337328wib.10.1325783824115; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.157.198 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:17:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:17:03 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Suggestion for Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:42:25 -0000 This page contain info on creating a disk image: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html Of course the dd method works, but it might be better to use truncate(1) instead of dd because it creates sparse files and is nearly as universal as dd. E.g. "truncate -s 5k file.img" -- Adam Vande More