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DateFri, 18 Jul 2003 15:10:16 -0400 (EDT)
From"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <>
SubjectRE: Partitioned loop device..
	Hello Christophe ,  Are the tools you use in this script only for
	2.5/2.6 ?  Tia ,  JimL
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Am Di, 2003-07-15 um 20.32 schrieb Dimitry V. Ketov:
> > > You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on
> > > your loop devices,
> > You're right but I want _partitions_ but not "partitions" ;)
> > It should appears like a real hardware disk, not virtual one.
> I just hacked up an ugly small shell script, that uses sfdisk and
> dmsetup to create the partition devices over any block device.
> Just dmsetup-partitions /dev/loop0 or something.
> It will then create devices /dev/mapper/loop0p1, etc... just like hda1
> and so on. To remove them use "dmsetup remove loop0p1", etc...
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