archboot/usr/bin/archboot-usbimage-helper.sh

#!/bin/bash
#    based on mkusbimg, modified to use syslinux 
#    by Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
# 
#    mkusbimg - creates a bootable disk image
#    Copyright (C) 2008  Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org>
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# usage(exitvalue)
# outputs a usage message and exits with value
APPNAME=$(basename "${0}")
usage()
{
    echo "usage: ${APPNAME} <imageroot> <imagefile>"
    exit $1
}

##################################################

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
    usage 1
fi

DISKIMG="${2}"
IMGROOT="${1}"
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
FSIMG=$(mktemp)

# ext2 overhead's upper bound is 6%
# empirically tested up to 1GB
rootsize=$(du -bs ${IMGROOT}|cut -f1)
IMGSZ=$(( (${rootsize}*102)/100/512 + 1)) # image size in sectors

# create the filesystem image file
dd if=/dev/zero of="${FSIMG}" bs=512 count="${IMGSZ}"

# create a filesystem on the image
mkfs.vfat -S 512 -F32 -n "ARCHBOOT" "${FSIMG}"

# mount the filesystem and copy data
modprobe loop
LOOP_DEVICE=$(losetup --show --find ${FSIMG})
mount -o rw,users -t vfat "${LOOP_DEVICE}" "${TMPDIR}"
cp -r "${IMGROOT}"/* "${TMPDIR}"

# unmount filesystem
umount "${TMPDIR}"
cat "${FSIMG}" > "${DISKIMG}"

# install syslinux on the image
syslinux "${DISKIMG}"

# all done :)
rm -rf "${TMPDIR}" "${FSIMG}"