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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 &lt;label&gt; &lt;size&gt; &lt;file&gt;
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 &lt;size&gt;. 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 &lt;file&gt;</pre>
53
54<h3>Example</h3>
55<pre>mksdcard -l mySdCard 1024M mySdCardFile.img</pre>