Re: Problem with loop mount

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:12:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Jon Forsberg wrote: > > # dd bs=1M seek=300 count=0 of=bigfile > > That makes a file that consits of a single 300mb hole. (run du on it) > > > If I create the loopfile with "dd bs=1M count=300 if=/dev/zero of=bigfile" > > instead (which

Re: Problem with loop mount

Jon Forsberg wrote: > # dd bs=1M seek=300 count=0 of=bigfile That makes a file that consits of a single 300mb hole. (run du on it) > If I create the loopfile with "dd bs=1M count=300 if=/dev/zero of=bigfile" > instead (which is the "normal" way to do it, I guess) everything works. > > So is this

Problem with loop mount

I do this: # cd /tmp # dd bs=1M seek=300 count=0 of=bigfile # mke2fs bigfile # mount -o loop bigfile /mnt # cd /mnt Then I start to copy a directory tree, that has around 200 MB of files, from another place into /mnt. Everytime I've tried it just stops after 50 to 100 MB. The hd isn't working and