Could not create file: No such file or directory

Question

I want to create create a qcow2 image for a virtual disk size of 7G so I'm doing virsh_pool=/home/test/abc and then

qemu-img create “${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2” 7G

But it gives me an error like

Formatting '“”/home/test/abc”/foo.qcow2”', fmt=raw size=7516192768
qemu-img: “”/home/test/abc”/foo.qcow2”: Could not create file: No such file or directory

When I do

qemu-img create /home/test/abc/foo.qcow 7G

It gets created but not the above way that I wan to do. What am I missing or doing wrong in this way?.

@RajatSingh, what they are saying is that when it says `'“”/home/test/abc”/foo.qcow2”'`, there are too many quotes around it, and they are not valid quotes to Linux. Linux doesn't understand curly quotes; it treats them as characters, and there's no directory that starts with curly quotes, so it correctly says "I can't do it, I give up" — jeremysprofile, Aug 30 '19 at 15:43
qemu-img: /home/test/abc/foo.qcow2: Could not create file: No such file or directory — Rajat Singh, Aug 30 '19 at 15:50
@RajatSingh Please rewrite your script and filenames in such a way that you're comfortable sharing the unmodified output (without redacted filenames), and then run `bash -x yourscript` and edit your post to include the exact copy-pasted output. This is important because such edits can unintentionally change seemingly insignificant details (like a stray space, brace or quote) — that other guy, Aug 30 '19 at 17:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '19 at 17:07

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Try this (copy and paste it):

d="${virsh_pool}"
if [[ -d "$d" ]]
then
    qemu-img create "$d/foo.qcow2" 7G
else
    printf 'ERROR\n' >&2
fi

answered Aug 30 '19 at 17:07

Diego Torres Milano

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score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 30 '19 at 16:01

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Try without quotes:

qemu-img create ${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2 7G

edited Aug 30 '19 at 16:01

Rajat Singh

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answered Aug 30 '19 at 15:45

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` Formatting '/home/test/abc/abc.qcow2', fmt=raw size=7516192768 qemu-img: /home/test/abc/foo.qcow2: Could not create file: No such file or directory ` – Rajat Singh Aug 30 '19 at 15:48
Please *do* use quotes, but use the *right* ones. Variable references should (almost) always have plain ASCII double-quotes around them. That is, use `"${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2"`, not `“${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2”` (fancy Unicode quotes), `${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2` (no quotes), or even `'${virsh_pool}/foo.qcow2'` (single-quotes). – Gordon Davisson Aug 30 '19 at 19:38

Could not create file: No such file or directory

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