Paulo Silva wrote:
I think you can cut some steps Ter, 2008-09-16 às 10:49 -0700, Bob McGowan escreveu: [...]2. losetup -f prints the name of the next available loop device, in my case it was /dev/loop0 3. losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/filename 4. losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/loop0: [0900]:8032956 (/path/to/filename) to confirm things worked as expected 5. mkfs -t fstype /dev/loop0 use other options if desired, such as "-m 1" with ext3 for 1% reserved block count instead of 5%.You sould be able do run mkfs directly on the file without creating a loop: # mkfs -t ext3 /path/to/filename mke2fs 1.41.1 (01-Sep-2008) /path/to/filename is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y [...]6. mkdir /mnt/diskimg or use /media/??? or ... 7. mount -t fstype /dev/loop0 /mnt/diskimgThe mount can be done with the loop option using the file as device: # mount -t fstype -o loop /path/to/filename /mnt/diskimg
So it does. I did try that, but it didn't work, probably because I tried it as a regular user, before searching for a method that explicitly said to do things as root.
-- Bob McGowan
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