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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>
     14 mksdcard -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>