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16 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Belanger
da41ee6012 Add output image format tgz support
We now support tgz (tar.gz) as an output format.

Change-Id: Iadec92f2f96c3f904f28bd49f87ffc7d48ef7bd7
Signed-off-by: Paul Belanger <pabelanger@redhat.com>
2016-12-17 16:41:42 -05:00
Ian Wienand
5e2330d89c Put MKFS_OPTS after filesystem type
mkfs's arguments are

 mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]

So it seems our MKFS_OPTS are really supposed to be fs-options, rather
than options to mkfs itself.

Why didn't we notice?  It's quite a trap -- mkfs.ext2 has a "-t"
option, so when we're calling

 $ mkfs -i 4096 ... -t ext4 ...

We actually just fall-back to the default from the mkfs wrapper which
is mkfs.ext2 which works!  But when you make that, say, xfs, we're not
calling the right wrapper at all.

Also update documentation

Closes-Bug: #1648287
Change-Id: I3ea5807088ab361bd9c235c07fb1553fbaf9178b
2016-12-09 07:22:38 +11:00
Matthew Thode
bb29082910
Document install of diskimage-builder on Gentoo
Change-Id: I27bf3499f998dcbdeb5cfebddde306e5200cc0b5
2016-10-11 20:17:49 -05:00
Gregory Haynes
7f9506962a Fix formatting for supported distros in docs
The supported distros table is not formatted consistently.

Change-Id: Ic9e32786419243c118088f933d86329480f3345b
2016-10-07 15:19:47 +11:00
SamYaple
0c32784663 Revert "Zerofree the image if possible"
This reverts commit 5184d02a7c.

The decision was made to go with fstrim because it is faster and more
universal that zerofree. The related-id has the patchset that implements
fstrim.

Related-Id: I269b4416be450369616f9b8e030f84c30e329804
Change-Id: If40cf2fc0ecd8686768cbfeac9ecee90907674e7
2016-03-10 20:38:01 +00:00
Clark Boylan
5184d02a7c Zerofree the image if possible
If the image has an ext filesystem and the zerofree utility is present
on the build system then run zerofree. This should make images as
compressable as possible which is a nice feature when building
compressed qcow2 images.

Change-Id: Ia6062c291f7a3f58b85a4f408ecb3d0574c65d53
2016-03-07 17:45:14 -08:00
Matthew Thode
175e292ec1 Add Gentoo to the list of supported distributions
We also document any additional package needed.

Change-Id: I7b9193fa5711138287f587935fc864fee4f95856
2016-02-29 12:20:50 +00:00
Isaac Beckman
24d1527111 Move speedup section to image building guide
speedup section explains  the user how to sppedup image build by using
tmpfs. The  correct user guide to have this section, is the user guide
about image building rather than the installation user guide.

Change-Id: I96b90bd79df53db4f926a928ae3c86b888315230
2016-01-18 07:02:00 +00:00
Abel Lopez
5e9c451d5f Document byte-to-inode ratio
End user docs would benefit from a section about the byte-to-inode
ratio, and why it's set the way it is. This update explains why
and how to manipulate the ratio depending on the intended use.

Change-Id: Iffb5ef6f4c7c74f4aa6e25912d4991d7a611c8fe
Closes-bug: 1512841
2015-12-16 13:58:17 -08:00
Gregory Haynes
930b597220 Move install-types doc to user guide
Install-types are a user facing feature, not just for developers. Lets
move the docs on them in to the user guide.

Change-Id: I6ee8f657c270cf90da9c0729494740bb23aa47c5
2015-11-13 18:45:28 +00:00
Jenkins
fe23b262fd Merge "Add documentation of output formats for users" 2015-09-11 13:06:42 +00:00
Gregory Haynes
486f3c01eb Add documentation of output formats for users
A blurb on output formats is useful for our users.

Change-Id: Iffa5036a84c1500ccb38cd3edb258ddbf5148a3e
2015-08-02 23:19:39 -07:00
Gregory Haynes
837bac1070 Fix link in installation doc
The link to building an image is not being properly parsed by sphinx in
the install user guide.

Change-Id: I1e73a4722b603ba11805031c522b107cae8c86b4
2015-07-24 23:47:30 +00:00
Gregory Haynes
89d0896b97 Document our supported distributions
Before we commit to supporting a set of distributions, we should
document what they are.

Change-Id: I076c326ec0eb4d1640a4229c0dfebd3d2cc880b4
2015-07-13 00:36:44 +00:00
Gregory Haynes
d98e6dcff9 Update install docs to be more user friendly
Our install docs are out of date and not very user friendly. Lets fix
that.

Change-Id: Idaff33096bf32865020b85ee776abd6691ac45ad
2015-04-12 16:08:47 +00:00
Gregory Haynes
360033027f Create a user guide
Our docs are very developer focused. Lets create a separate user guide
to help new users get started.

Change-Id: I8a03920e6d3306dd0405177875ea55ccb4b40fea
2015-04-01 19:51:08 +00:00