#!/bin/bash # Copies raspi3.img into compr.img, resulting in many consecutive zero bytes # which are nicely compressible. set -e qemu-img create -f raw compr.img 1100M # copy partition table from raspi3.img sfdisk --quiet --dump raspi3.img | sfdisk --quiet compr.img readarray rmappings < <(sudo kpartx -asv raspi3.img) readarray cmappings < <(sudo kpartx -asv compr.img) # copy the vfat boot partition as-is set -- ${rmappings[0]} rboot="$3" set -- ${cmappings[0]} cboot="$3" sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/${rboot?} of=/dev/mapper/${cboot?} bs=5M status=none # copy the ext4 root partition in a space-saving way set -- ${rmappings[1]} rroot="$3" set -- ${cmappings[1]} croot="$3" sudo e2fsck -y -f /dev/mapper/${rroot?} sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/${rroot?} 800M sudo e2image -rap /dev/mapper/${rroot?} /dev/mapper/${croot?} sudo kpartx -ds raspi3.img sudo kpartx -ds compr.img xz -8 -f compr.img