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Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem



Partition Magic will repartition a DOS or win95 volume without destroying
data. It is also very easy to use.

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have two disks on my PC, hda=127 MB and hdb=1.6 GB. I am using hda for
> Debian, hdb is Win95.
> 
> I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it.
> Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so cannot
> easily repartition my main disk.
> 
> I heard some noise on this list about setting being able to mount a file as
> a filesystem. I would like to know how I can create say a 200MB file on hdb
> (Win 95) and mount it as a filesystem on say /usr.
> 
> Is this possible? What do I need to do it?
> 
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