From: kernel <kernel@crazytrain.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:42:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106368961.3832.9.camel@crazytrain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.01.22.01.45.31.457367@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:45, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a
> file that contains a partition table?
>
Yes, lots of folks.
> When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the
> file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a
> way of getting any other partitions from a file with a partition table.
>
> Any comments?
Sure, find the starting offset for the filesystem and pass that to mount
via the '-o offset=XXX' flag.
regards,
-fd
www.farmerdude.com
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2005-01-22 1:45 Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table? Dan Stromberg
2005-01-22 4:42 ` kernel [this message]
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