In the world of Linux development and embedded systems, genimage is a versatile utility used to generate multiple filesystem and disk images from a root filesystem tree.
You can also fill a partition directly from a directory without creating an intermediate image using the rootpath option, though using intermediate images is cleaner for debugging. genimage
Q: Can GenImage create compressed images?
A: Indirectly. Use squashfs (which is compressed by nature) or pipe the output to gzip. In the world of Linux development and embedded
partition rootfs in-partition-table = true image = "rootfs.ext4" size = 256M filesystem = ext4 mountpoint = "/" genimage