jari, thank you.
there are _loads_ of people with mad and bad solutions - why
are none of them easily accessible via oh say debian packages???
l.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:27:49PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > such that it is possible to then subsequently do this:
> >
> > fdisk /dev/loopblocka and
> > mkfs.ext2 /dev/loopblocka1
> > mount /dev/loopblocka1 -t ext2 /mnt/somewhere
>
> Using attached image-mount script that is possible. Like this:
>
> ln -s image-mount image-losetup
> fdisk filename
> (remember to set correct cyl/head/sect before creating partitions)
> ./image-losetup /dev/loop7 filename 2
> mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop7
> mount /dev/loop7 -t ext2 /mnt/somewhere
> umount /mnt/somewhere
> losetup -d /dev/loop7
>
> or
>
> ./image-mount filename 2 /mnt/somewhere
> umount /mnt/somewhere
>
> Good news is that image-mount and image-losetup scripts get both size and
> offset of the partition right, so mkfs creates correct size file system. Bad
> news is that it only works with losetup and mount programs from loop-AES
> package. Google for "loop-AES" if you can't find it.
>
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