#!/bin/bash # This script creates a 16Mb disk in a file echo -n "Creating disk image..." if dd if=/dev/zero of=vdisk.img bs=1M count=16 &>/dev/null; then echo " done" echo -n "Creating ext2 file system..." if mkfs.ext2 -L vdisk vdisk.img &>/dev/null; then echo " done" else echo " failed" exit 2 fi else echo " failed" exit 1 fi