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Description
The "mkdskcmd" utility:
- Creates empty disk images of a given standard disk type or a custom disk size
- Transfers existing disk images of one type to disk images of another type.
Creating disk images
The first step is to obtain the name of the disk that needs to be created:
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mkdisk for CHARON utility v. 1.16
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Usage:
mkdskcmd [Options]
Options:
-h, --help - display help screen
-o, --output <file> - specify output file name
-d, --disk <name> - specify the disk name from Disk table
-z, --blsize <value> - specify the block size in bytes (custom disk image)
-c, --blcount <value> - specify number of the blocks (custom disk image)
-a, --avtable <file> - specify AVDISK table file
-r, --resize <file> [<disk-name>]
- resize the disk image
<file> - file name of the disk image to be resized
<disk-name> - name of the disk from the Disk table
<file> will either have the specified number of blocks added to the
end or be truncated at the new smaller size.
To specify a custom disk size, use the following parameters:
--resize <file> --blsize <value> --blcount <value>
-s, --shrink - mandatory parameter when resizing to smaller disk
-l, --list - to display AVDISK table
-q, --quiet - run in quiet mode
Return value:
0 - Success
Non zero - Failure
Examples:
mkdskcmd -h
mkdskcmd -l
mkdskcmd -a /opt/charon/bin/mkdsk.vtable -o rk07.vdisk -d rk07
mkdskcmd -o custom.vdisk -z 512 -c 16384
mkdskcmd -r rz22.vdisk rz25 -a /opt/charon/bin/mkdsk.vtable
mkdskcmd -r rz22.vdisk rz25 -a /opt/charon/bin/mkdsk.vtable -z 512 -c 32768
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Resizing disk images
The "mkdskcmd" utility is able to resize disk images of one type to a disk image of another type.
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