On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space > my idea was to mount my "Windows NT home directory" here at work > and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) > o far I have mounted my home drive > \\home5\sjc8$ on /mnt/partners with smbmount > because o fmy specific problems I was trying to do the following: > create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir > and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my > files and care about case and permissions > I am planning on using it to image CDs to burn (hamm hamm hamm :) ) > why wont it work? > I can make an e2fs filesystem but when I try to moungt it anywhere I get > errors > I tried the following example > cd ~ > touch test.e2
Here, make sure that the file is actually the size you want it to be before you use mke2fs on it, like this: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.e2 bs=1024k count=500 This will create a 500 MB file filled with 0x00. > mke2fs -F test.e2 500 > (it makes a filesystem) > mkdir testmnt > mount test.e2 -o loop testmnt > and it moutns! > then... > cp test.e2 /mnt/partners > mount /mnt/partners/test.e2 -o loop testmnt > and I get the errors "loop: block 1 not present" and a bunch of others > then I tried > cd /mnt/partners > mkdir testmnt > and same deal > anyone tried this? can it work? what sthe problem? The problem is that block 1 is really not present. The dd command above will make cause it to be present. I don't know if this also works if the test.e2 is on a Samba filesystem, but you could of course give it a try. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
