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sanboot:iscsi_create_via_linux [2009/01/18 13:20] johan created |
sanboot:iscsi_create_via_linux [2009/01/18 13:28] johan added how to create arbitrary sized files |
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Lun 0 Path=/dev/sdX,Type=fileio | Lun 0 Path=/dev/sdX,Type=fileio | ||
- | Where **Path** can be any block device (including regular block devices like hdX and sdX and virtual block devices like LVM and Software RAID devices) or regular files. | + | Where **Path** can be any block device (including regular block devices like hdX and sdX and virtual block devices like LVM and Software RAID devices) or regular files. If you use a regular file you need to make it as big as you want the target device to be. This will get you a 1 GB file: |
+ | root@novBackup:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/myfile bs=1024 count=1000000 | ||
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+ | Setup complete! |