Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:00:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Mount |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jonathan Masters wrote: [SNIPPED]
> > Oh, one more while I'm here, I tried putting an rc6 ext2fs on a cd but > it simply refuses to mount (yes I did create the image correctly and > pass mount the right options). Any ideas? - I'm also waiting for the li > patch for 2.2.11 >
I had problems attempting to mount an ext2 fs on a CDROM. Therefore, I hacked the kernel to pretend that the CDROM was a regular disk drive.
Somebody then told me you can always force a mount using `mount -o loop' pretending that it's the loopback device. I didn't try it since I don't have an ext2 CDROM file-system anymore. However, I know you can mount a regular file this way, for instance making ramdisk images:
dd if=/dev/zero of=${IMAGE} bs=1k count=${DISKSIZE} mke2fs -Fq ${IMAGE} ${DISKSIZE} mount -o loop ${IMAGE} ${RAMDISK}
Cheers, Dick Johnson **** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED **** Penguin : Linux version 2.2.6 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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