Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 06:25:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: re. multiple ext2fs partitions. |
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> 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. ___ Trevor Johnson
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