#!/bin/bash # # This should work with almost any image that uses MBR partitioning and doesn't already # have 3 or more partitions. set -e log() { echo "`basename $0`: $@" } usage() { [[ -z "$1" ]] || echo -e "USAGE ERROR: $@\n" echo "`basename $0`: IMAGEFILE DEVICE" echo " - This script images DEVICE with IMAGEFILE" exit 1 } IMAGEFILE="$1" DEVICE="$2" [[ -f $IMAGEFILE ]] || usage "$IMAGEFILE (IMAGEFILE) is not a file" [[ -b $DEVICE ]] || usage "$DEVICE (DEVICE) is not a block device" # In production this will be replaced with secure erasing the drives # For now we need to ensure there aren't any old (GPT) partitions on the drive log "Erasing existing mbr from ${DEVICE}" dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE bs=512 count=10 ## Doing two steps allows us to use dd, which allows us to tweak things like ## blocksize and allows use of direct io # Converts image to raw log "Imaging $IMAGEFILE to RAW format" qemu-img convert -O raw $IMAGEFILE /tmp/image.raw # Write image onto device log "Imaging $DEVICE" dd if=/tmp/image.raw of=$DEVICE bs=64K oflag=direct log "${DEVICE} imaged successfully!"