Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:38:48 +0100 | | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | | Subject | Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file |
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jari, thank you.
there are _loads_ of people with mad and bad solutions - why are none of them easily accessible via oh say debian packages???
l.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:27:49PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > 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. > > -- > Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD
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