Hamish Moffatt writes:
>
> > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
> > > from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
> > > it still need to be a ro file system?
> >
> > You use losetup
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
> > from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
> > it still need to be a ro file system?
>
> You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, a
Dale Scheetz said:
> If you use loop devices at all you will certainly want more than one. My
> system has loop0 thru loop7.
As does mine. 'MAKEDEV loop' creates them all (at least, it did on my Debian
1.1 system).
> This would allow your mount to look like:
>
> mount -o loop=/dev/loop2 -t ext2
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]So my question is this: how do i fsck the filesystem in a file?
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
] Use losetup(8) to associate the loop device with a file first, then
] fsck, and then mount.
]
] losetup /dev/loop0 /the/loopback/file
] fsck
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> Scott Barker said:
> > mount -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
>
> oops. That should be
>
> mount -o loop -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
>
> And, don't forget to make sure that the loop devices have been created:
>
> cd /dev
> ./MAKEDEV loop
>
If
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>So my question is this: how do i fsck the filesystem in a file?
Use losetup(8) to associate the loop device with a file first, then
fsck, and then mount.
losetup /dev/loop0 /the/loopback/file
fsck -t ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /
Scott Barker said:
> mount -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
oops. That should be
mount -o loop -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
And, don't forget to make sure that the loop devices have been created:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV loop
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The loop device is pretty nifty. I use it to maintain a root-disk
image used on a special-purpose diskless machine. To make changes to
the root disk, i mount the image, update the FS, unmount it, compress
it, and copy the compressed file to a floppy. Then i can bootstrap the
system from that
Dale Scheetz said:
> This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
> from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
> it still need to be a ro file system?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file bs=1k count=
mke2fs /path/to/file
mount -t ext2 /path
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
> from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
> it still need to be a ro file system?
You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, and then mou
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > a filesystem. I would like to know how I can create say a 200MB file on
> > > hdb
> > > (Win 95) and mount it as a filesystem on say /usr.
> > > Is this possible? What do I need to do it?
> > >
> > You can create an iso9660 read only file system im
Hi all,
Thanks for the suggestions. I dowloaded FIPS and used it to repartition my
hard disk. I haven't found any problems yet.
Thanks
Simon
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On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Nick Busigin wrote:
> > data destroyed on any up to now. FIPS is a very secure tool and makes it
> > possible to undo a partiton splitting without doing harm to the data on
> > it. Works well with Win95 vfat file systems.
>
> Just out of curiousity... does fips work with an N
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote:
> I think Debian distributions normally provide FIPS but not the most recent
> version with all (minor) bugfixes included. I regularily use FIPS for
> splitting harddisk partitions (20 times so far) and never managed to get
> data destroyed on any up to now.
Partition Magic will repartition a DOS or win95 volume without destroying
data. It is also very easy to use.
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two disks on my PC, hda=127 MB and hdb=1.6 GB. I am using hda for
> Debian, hdb is Win95.
>
> I installed Debian on hda as a
> > a filesystem. I would like to know how I can create say a 200MB file on hdb
> > (Win 95) and mount it as a filesystem on say /usr.
> > Is this possible? What do I need to do it?
> >
> You can create an iso9660 read only file system image file with mkisofs on
> your win95 partition and then mou
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two disks on my PC, hda=127 MB and hdb=1.6 GB. I am using hda for
> Debian, hdb is Win95.
>
> I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it.
> Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote:
> I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it.
> Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so cannot
> easily repartition my main disk.
>
> I heard some noise on this list about setting being able to mount a f
Hi all,
I have two disks on my PC, hda=127 MB and hdb=1.6 GB. I am using hda for
Debian, hdb is Win95.
I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it.
Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so cannot
easily repartition my main disk.
I heard some n
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