On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, martin wrote:
>
> > this is a wishlistish feature request.
> >
> > i would like to be able to partition a loopback device,
> > and then mount those partitions.
> >
> > sorry i couldn't find the loopback maintainer to send this to.
>
> http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux
the only problem with this technique is you can't set the limit for a
loopback... only the offset...
istr someone posted a script which used fdisk -l and dmsetup to create
properly offset/limited loopback partition devices... or maybe that was
just what several people said would be the cool way to solve it :)
-dean
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