Re: mounting loopback device partitions

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, dean gaudet wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, martin wrote:
> > 
> > > this is a wishlistish feature request.
> > > 
> > > i would like to be able to partition a loopback device,
> > > and then mount those partitions.
> > > 
> > > sorry i couldn't find the loopback maintainer to send this to.
> > 
> > http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux
> 
> the only problem with this technique is you can't set the limit for a 
> loopback... only the offset...
> 
> istr someone posted a script which used fdisk -l and dmsetup to create 
> properly offset/limited loopback partition devices... or maybe that was 
> just what several people said would be the cool way to solve it :)

found it...

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.2/0935.html

-dean
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