Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:15:11 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: mounting loopback device partitions |
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, martin wrote: > > > this is a wishlistish feature request. > > > > i would like to be able to partition a loopback device, > > and then mount those partitions. > > > > sorry i couldn't find the loopback maintainer to send this to. > > http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux
the only problem with this technique is you can't set the limit for a loopback... only the offset...
istr someone posted a script which used fdisk -l and dmsetup to create properly offset/limited loopback partition devices... or maybe that was just what several people said would be the cool way to solve it :)
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