btw, here is the way to append more bytes on the tail, dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1 count=no_of_bytes seek=$(stat -c%s myfile) ------------ Banyan He Blog: http://www.rootong.com Email: banyan@xxxxxxxxxxx On 2012-10-23 2:08 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi, > > I know I can create a file and mount it like this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/somefile bs=1024 count=100000 > mke2fs /tmp/somefile > mount /tmp/somefile /mnt -o loop > > but that has a problem it cannot grow. > > Is there a way to do the same (above) but have it not restricted to a size? > > Or can I append blocks to the end of the file without distroying it? > > > > Jobst > > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos