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| author | Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com> | 2016-08-10 16:16:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> | 2016-09-20 22:10:57 +0200 |
| commit | f7c1553388c98efcdcc70371e655417cf1ed7df6 (patch) | |
| tree | afc25b05e013b671d704c4948306c4315dee5af1 /qemu-img.texi | |
| parent | 86ce1f6e2b73b33c4a52818e245378bf52d27200 (diff) | |
qemu-img: add skip option to dd
This adds the skip option which allows qemu-img dd to skip a number of blocks
before copying the input.
A test case was added to test the skip option.
Signed-off-by: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20160810141609.32727-1-fullmanet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-img.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index 880293aefa..174aae38b7 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ sets the number of input blocks to copy sets the input file @item of=@var{output} sets the output file +@item skip=@var{blocks} +sets the number of input blocks to skip @end table Command description: @@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ skipped. This is useful for formats such as @code{rbd} if the target volume has already been created with site specific options that cannot be supplied through qemu-img. -@item dd [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [bs=@var{block_size}] [count=@var{blocks}] if=@var{input} of=@var{output} +@item dd [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [bs=@var{block_size}] [count=@var{blocks}] [skip=@var{blocks}] if=@var{input} of=@var{output} Dd copies from @var{input} file to @var{output} file converting it from @var{fmt} format to @var{output_fmt} format. |