Create Linux ext2 file system image(raw format, not sparse/Android) for any platform(Example ARM)

  dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs.img bs=1M count=1024
  mkfs.ext4 -F -L linuxroot rootfs.img #kernel use the label linuxroot to mount the rootfs as /
  sudo mount -o loop rootfs.img /mnt

Note

Android new version/system.img will be sparse format :

Tools/simg2img and img2simg

simg2img  “out/host/linux-x86/bin/simg2img” 
simg2img  source  “system/core/libsparse”

 

Example: 

//sparse image转化成为ext4的raw imge
Usage: simg2img <sparse_image_files> <raw_image_file>  

//ext4的raw image to  sparse image
Usage: img2simg <raw_image_file> <sparse_image_file> [<block_size>]