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authorToyam Cox <Vaelatern@gmail.com>2016-01-12 18:13:03 -0500
committerToyam Cox <Vaelatern@gmail.com>2016-01-14 08:48:43 -0500
commita25ec4a9b0d2fca05f87db62d05e7cf6eca3e506 (patch)
tree2f5e85a1b461c269226258c3632feb3b959aafff
parent6653bb6057f8a3b42c69b3bc0fa5ef40ade1e679 (diff)
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Switch to truncate to allocate storage for images
Works in low memory situations
-rw-r--r--mkimage.sh.in2
-rw-r--r--mklive.sh.in6
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mkimage.sh.in b/mkimage.sh.in
index 13e9301..4888c66 100644
--- a/mkimage.sh.in
+++ b/mkimage.sh.in
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ case "$DD_VERSION" in
 esac
 
 info_msg "Creating disk image ($IMGSIZE) ..."
-dd if=/dev/zero of=$FILENAME bs=$IMGSIZE count=1 ${DD_SPARSE} >/dev/null 2>&1
+truncate -s "${IMGSIZE}M" $FILENAME >/dev/null 2>&1
 
 ROOTFSDIR=$(mktemp -d)
 
diff --git a/mklive.sh.in b/mklive.sh.in
index 5edd289..55751dd 100644
--- a/mklive.sh.in
+++ b/mklive.sh.in
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ generate_grub_efi_boot() {
     modprobe -q loop || :
 
     # Create EFI vfat image.
-    dd if=/dev/zero of=$GRUB_DIR/efiboot.img bs=1024 count=16384  >/dev/null 2>&1
+    truncate -s 16M $GRUB_DIR/efiboot.img >/dev/null 2>&1
     mkfs.vfat -F12 -S 512 -n "grub_uefi" "$GRUB_DIR/efiboot.img" >/dev/null 2>&1
 
     GRUB_EFI_TMPDIR="$(mktemp --tmpdir=$HOME -d)"
@@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ generate_squashfs() {
         ROOTFS_FREESIZE="$((ROOTFS_SIZE/6))"
     fi
     mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR/tmp/LiveOS"
-    dd if=/dev/zero of="$BUILDDIR/tmp/LiveOS/ext3fs.img" \
-        bs="$((ROOTFS_SIZE+ROOTFS_FREESIZE))M" count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
+    truncate -s "$((ROOTFS_SIZE+ROOTFS_FREESIZE))M" \
+	    $BUILDDIR/tmp/LiveOS/ext3fs.img >/dev/null 2>&1
     mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR/tmp-rootfs"
     mkfs.ext3 -F -m1 "$BUILDDIR/tmp/LiveOS/ext3fs.img" >/dev/null 2>&1
     mount -o loop "$BUILDDIR/tmp/LiveOS/ext3fs.img" "$BUILDDIR/tmp-rootfs"