On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:17:33AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
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> I think this is pretty straightforward (but I haven't tested it yet).
> The thing is that when you dd the binary.img to the usb-disk, e.g.
>
> dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb
>
> you will get a /dev/sdb1 with the exact size of the binary.img
>
> Then you just need to create a new partition (/dev/sdb2) that uses up
> the rest of the usb-stick, and name that partition "live-rw". That
> should be possible with a sfdisk one-liner.
Here's a bash snippet for that (not a one-liner, though)
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#/bin/bash
# Automatically add a partition which fills the rest of a debian-live usb-key
# usage: auto-format device
# e.g. auto-format /dev/sdb
DEV=$1
STARTSEC=`sfdisk -l $DEV | grep "*" | awk {'print $5'} | cut -d "-" -f 1`
echo -e ",$STARTSEC,L,*\n,,L\n" | sfdisk $DEV
mke2fs -L "live-rw" ${DEV}2
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