Re: Making a file system image

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:57:52AM -0700, Rus Foster wrote:
>
> HIt a bit of a quandry. Trying to work out how to do the following. I'm
> basically wanting to create a file, format it then loop back mount it. Now
> for the life of me I can work out how to format a file. Any ideas?

# dd bs=512k count=8 if=/dev/zero of=./test.img
# mke2fs ./test.img 
# mount -o loop ./test.img /mnt/loop

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Jamin W. Collins

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