Re: mounting files as filesystems
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I
> would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as
> file. Still with me? :)
What you want to use is the loop device. I mount iso image files with:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 image.iso /mnt
Try it, you'll like it ;-)
Dwarf
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