* Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> [2001.10.25 10:51:26-0400]:
> So, as a sanity check, could someone confirm that this _does_ mean I have
> loopfs enable?
loopfs isn't a file systems, but this means that you can loop mount.
loop mounting is mounting a file systems not from a device, but from a
file: so:
dd if=/dev/zero of=filesystem.file bs=1024k count=16
mkfs -t ext2 filesystem.file
mkdir mountpoint
mount -o loop filesystem.file ./mountpoint
will create a 16Mb file, format a filesystem onto it, then mount the
result at ./mountpoint.
for this to work, you need that particular kernel option enabled, and
if compiled as a module, the module must be loaded (loop.o).
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