Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

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.
> 
> -- 
> Jari Ruusu  1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD


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