Configuration file for diskimage
Description:
The diskimage utility requires a configuration file that specifies the disk image
layout and content.
For the full grammar of the configuration file, see
“Grammar.”
The configuration file has these parts:
- disk configuration—(Required unless the output file is a disk device) A description of disk-wide
parameters.
- partition definitions—(Optional) Any number of partition
descriptions. The partition descriptions specify the partitions to create,
as well as the contents and characteristics (attributes) of each
partition.
The configuration file uses a specific syntax. The following general rules apply:
- Line breaks and spaces can occur anywhere, except in literals or tokens.
- Whitespaces used in a string literal in double quotes ("")
are interpreted as part of that string.
- A line feed (LF) character indicates the end of a line.
Carriage return characters (CR) are silently ignored
and aren't interpreted as the end of line.
- A hash (#) character indicates the beginning of a comment.
Comments can begin anywhere and always extend to the end of the line.
- Numeric values can be specified as decimal, octal, or hexadecimal.
Optionally, numeric values can use these suffix values to indicate a factor:
- k or K to represent kilo (1024)
- m or M to represent mega (10242)
- g or G to represent giga (10243)
- t or T to represent tera (10244)
- p or P to represent peta (10245)