Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:10:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | RE: Partitioned loop device.. |
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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... -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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