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 15:56:58 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 874thzwd3p.fsf@slip-47-14.ots.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Sebastian Kuzminsky's message of Fri, 06 Dec 1996 13:04:47 -0700
References: <[🔎] 199612062004.NAA28342@taussky.cs.colorado.edu>

Sebastian Kuzminsky <kuzminsk@taussky.cs.colorado.edu> writes:

>    So my question is this:  how do i fsck the filesystem in a file?

Use losetup(8) to associate the loop device with a file first, then
fsck, and then mount.

losetup /dev/loop0 /the/loopback/file
fsck -t ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt


Guy


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