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authorJoshua Lock <joshua.lock@collabora.co.uk>2016-04-08 10:14:18 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-04-09 07:54:29 +0100
commit5fd592fbae2e046bcb8c3a6c3ef4993fe0400676 (patch)
treeca6ebe41eb76012f56eb58a73d63b30ff08de4c2 /scripts
parent4aa8f67867a05bdf4a5ba90c8235740910662847 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-5fd592fbae2e046bcb8c3a6c3ef4993fe0400676.tar.gz
wic/utils/partitionedfs.py: assemble .wic images as sparse files
The individual partitions created by wic are sparse but without this change the assembled image is written as one (potentially very) large file. Preserve sparseness in the assembled image by passing the sparse conversion symbol. [YOCTO #9099] Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.lock@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py b/scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py
index 5a103bbc7e..3e2b420875 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ class Image(object):
source = part['source_file']
if source:
# install source_file contents into a partition
- cmd = "dd if=%s of=%s bs=%d seek=%d count=%d conv=notrunc" % \
+ cmd = "dd if=%s of=%s bs=%d seek=%d count=%d conv=notrunc,sparse" % \
(source, image_file, self.sector_size,
part['start'], part['size'])
exec_cmd(cmd)