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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:30:58 -0500
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

>[if you are happy to reply at all, please reply cc'd thank you.]
>
>hi,
>  
>
Hi Luke,

>the question is, therefore:
>
>	* how the hell do you loopback mount (or lvm mount
>	  or _anything_! something!)  partitions that have
>	  been created in a loopback'd file!!!!
>  
>
See http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-December/012627.html

In summary, if you have a single partition then you can use the 
following command:

mount -o loop,offset=32256 loop.img /mnt

There's mention of a replacement loopback driver that supports 
partitions but a quick google'ing didn't turn anything up.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori