Create a flash drive image

Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/668485/creating-a-fat-file-system-and-save-it-into-a-file-in-gnu-linux

 

Create a blank file:

 

dd if=/dev/zero of=test-disk.img bs=1024 count=SIZE
# size = SIZE*bs

Format as FS:

mkfs.vfat test-disk.img

Mount:

sudo mkdir /mnt/test-dir
sudo mount -o loop  test-disk.img /mnt/test-dir/

Copy files:

sudo rsync -rv --ignore-existing some_directory/* /mnt/test-disk/

Unmount:

sudo umount /mnt/test-disk
sudo rmdir /mnt/test-disk

Clone to flash drive:

dd if=test-disk.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress