Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161148AbVLOGPO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:15:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161152AbVLOGPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:15:13 -0500 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org ([207.7.145.18]:53189 "EHLO twinlark.arctic.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161148AbVLOGPM (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:15:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet To: Zwane Mwaikambo cc: martin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mounting loopback device partitions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20051215041227.GF43089@faeriemud.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 28 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 :) -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/