Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:27:49 +0300 | From | Jari Ruusu <> | Subject | Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file |
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > such that it is possible to then subsequently do this: > > fdisk /dev/loopblocka and > mkfs.ext2 /dev/loopblocka1 > mount /dev/loopblocka1 -t ext2 /mnt/somewhere
Using attached image-mount script that is possible. Like this:
ln -s image-mount image-losetup fdisk filename (remember to set correct cyl/head/sect before creating partitions) ./image-losetup /dev/loop7 filename 2 mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop7 mount /dev/loop7 -t ext2 /mnt/somewhere umount /mnt/somewhere losetup -d /dev/loop7
or
./image-mount filename 2 /mnt/somewhere umount /mnt/somewhere
Good news is that image-mount and image-losetup scripts get both size and offset of the partition right, so mkfs creates correct size file system. Bad news is that it only works with losetup and mount programs from loop-AES package. Google for "loop-AES" if you can't find it.
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