NAME

packimage - Packs the stateless image from the chroot file system.


SYNOPSIS

packimage [-h| --help]

packimage [-v| --version]

packimage [-m|--method cpio|tar] [-c|--compress gzip|pigz|xz] imagename


DESCRIPTION

Packs the stateless image from the chroot file system into a file to be sent to the node for a diskless boot.

Note: For an osimage that is deployed on a cluster, running packimage will overwrite the existing rootimage file and be unavailable to the compute nodes while packimage is running.


PARAMETERS

imagename specifies the name of a OS image definition to be used. The specification for the image is stored in the osimage table and linuximage table.


OPTIONS

-h Display usage message.

-v Command Version.

-m| --method Archive Method (cpio,tar,squashfs, default is cpio)

-c| --compress Compress Method (pigz,gzip,xz, default is pigz/gzip)


RETURN VALUE

0 The command completed successfully.

1 An error has occurred.


EXAMPLES

1. To pack the osimage 'rhels7.1-x86_64-netboot-compute':

 packimage rhels7.1-x86_64-netboot-compute

2. To pack the osimage 'rhels7.1-x86_64-netboot-compute' with "tar" to archive and "pigz" to compress:

 packimage -m tar -c pigz rhels7.1-x86_64-netboot-compute


FILES

/opt/xcat/sbin/packimage


NOTES

This command is part of the xCAT software product.


SEE ALSO

genimage(1)