On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:59, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > How do I make a "filesystem in a file" ? I'll answer first: mine's best:-) dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=$((4*1024)) bs=$((1024*1024)) ls -Shosag bigfile mke2fs -q -F bigfile ls -Shossag bigfile sudo mount -o loop bigfile /mnt The last assumes you have sudo installed and configured. You could, of course, mount it over /tmp and Bob's your uncle:-) Be aware that this is a little more frail than a filesystem on a partition: you have two layers of stuff to write. It's good for 1) Short-term stuff 2) Throw-away stuff. Like /tmp. 3) ro stuff. Like /usr - just back it up each time you change it. 4) Self-education. btw I created an ext2 filesystem like that, populated it and burned to to dvd. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
