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From 5d21b00dbdd1e1a04317bf16afb8f4d2ceaa470f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2022 17:12:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dump: Add another example to the manual
(cherry picked from commit be3768b077c9542aba34eb821016c36f31d234af)
---
dump/nbddump.pod | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/dump/nbddump.pod b/dump/nbddump.pod
index 5d7864d..656a965 100644
--- a/dump/nbddump.pod
+++ b/dump/nbddump.pod
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ For example, to dump out a qcow2 file as raw data:
nbddump -- [ qemu-nbd -r -f qcow2 file.qcow2 ]
+To dump out an empty floppy disk created by L<nbdkit-floppy-plugin(1)>:
+
+ mkdir /var/tmp/empty
+ nbddump -- [ nbdkit floppy /var/tmp/empty ]
+
Note that S<C<[ ... ]>> are separate parameters, and must be
surrounded by spaces. C<--> separates nbddump parameters from
subprocess parameters.
--
2.31.1