Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

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Subject: Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem
From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Date: 06 Dec 1996 10:28:48 -0600
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In-reply-to: Dale Scheetz's message of Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:49:26 -0500 (EST)
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.961206084746.22056A-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>

Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

> This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
> from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
> it still need to be a ro file system?

You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, and then mount it.
See the losetup(8) man page for details.

And no, it wouldn't be ro.

Guy

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