mksidisk - command shell to Add or List SystemInstaller Partition Information

  mksidisk --List --name image1 
  mksidisk -Add --name image1 --file partion1

The mksidisk command is used to add or list the partition information for a images defined by SystemInstaller.

mksidisk [ operation ] [ options ]

Recognized operations include:

-A, --Add

Add or update partition information using supplied options (--name, --type and stdin, or partition file are required). The new partition information will replace the existing partition information stored in the image.

-L, --List

List partition information for image (--name is required).

Recognized options include:

--name

Name of the image.

--type

Type of disk drive, valid choices are scsi | ide. This option is used to override the disk type for ALL disks in the input.

--file

A file that contains the partition information. Sample file: #These are optional, global parameters # units=MB # this is the default, megabytes # units=% # Sizes are percent of disk # label_type=msdos # this is the default # label_type=gpt # For Itanium #Device size fs_type mount options /dev/sda1 30 ext2 /boot defaults bootable /dev/sda5 30 swap /dev/sda6 4000 ext2 / defaults # # You can also include nfs mounts like this fileserver:/home - nfs /home rw # # And mix disk types also, but don't use the --type # flag on mksidisk or it will change them all! # An * in the size column indicated that the # partition should fill the remainder of the disk. /dev/sda1 * ext2 /opt defaults # # There are defaults for /proc,/dev/pts & # /mnt/floppy, # but if you want to change them, just add lines # here. # The values here are the defaults. #/dev/fd0 - auto /mnt/floppy noauto,owner #/proc - proc /proc defaults #/dev/pts - devpts /dev/pts mode=622 Make sure there is only 1 filesystem marked as bootable and that there is something in the size column even if its not a local partition, '-' is used in the above example.

--stdin

Accept the partition information from STDIN. The format is the same as the partition file above.

--parse

Print output in a colon-delimited format for parsing. Only valid with the --List option. Note that the : in the specification of an nfs remote mount point will be replaced with a #.

  When the drive type, --type, is specified along with a partition
  file, the drive type will override the drive types for B<ALL> drives 
  in the partition input.

  When running on an image that was created via the B<getimage> command,
  the default boot kernel may be changed. Be sure to verify the settings
  in the images B<etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf> file before using 
  the image.

Stacy Woods, spwoods@us.ibm.com, Michael Chase-Salerno, mchasal@users.sf.net

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