1page.title=mksdcard 2parent.title=Tools 3parent.link=index.html 4@jd:body 5 6 <p>The <code>mksdcard</code> tool lets you quickly create a FAT32 disk image that you can load in the 7 emulator, to simulate the presence of an SD card in the device. Because you can specify an SD 8 card while creating an AVD in the AVD Manager, you usually use that feature to create an SD card. 9 This tool creates an SD card that is not bundled with an AVD, so it is useful for situations 10 where you need to share a virtual SD card between multiple emulators.</p> 11 12 <h3>Usage</h3> 13 <pre> 14mksdcard -l <label> <size> <file> 15</pre> 16 17 <h3>Options</h3> 18 <p>The following table describes the command-line options of <code>mksdcard</code></p> 19 <table> 20 <tr> 21 <th>Option</th> 22 23 <th>Description</th> 24 </tr> 25 26 <tr> 27 <td><code>-l</code></td> 28 29 <td>A volume label for the disk image to create.</td> 30 </tr> 31 32 <tr> 33 <td><code>size</code></td> 34 35 <td>An integer that specifies the size (in bytes) of disk image to create. You can also 36 specify size in kilobytes or megabytes, by appending a "K" or "M" to <size>. For 37 example, <code>1048576K</code>, <code>1024M</code>.</td> 38 </tr> 39 40 <tr> 41 <td><code>file</code></td> 42 43 <td>The path/filename of the disk image to create.</td> 44 </tr> 45 </table> 46 47 <p>Once you have created the disk image file, you can load it in the emulator at startup using 48 the emulator's <code>-sdcard</code> option. For more information, see <a href= 49 "{@docRoot}tools/help/emulator.html">Android Emulator</a>.</p> 50 51 <p>The usage for the <code>-sdcard</code> option is as follows:</p> 52 <pre>emulator -sdcard <file></pre> 53 54<h3>Example</h3> 55<pre>mksdcard -l mySdCard 1024M mySdCardFile.img</pre>