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SubjectRe: re. multiple ext2fs partitions.
> Being able to say "Here's a 600MB Linux partition, lets put /, swap and
> /usr in there" is what I'm curious about doing.

You could compile a kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP and use the loop
driver to mount /usr from a big file. To use the loop driver for your
root filesystem, you'd probably want to start with initrd. More
cleverness would be needed. Swapping from a file is easy.
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Trevor Johnson


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