On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Sandeep K Sinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> in what all situations will I use losetup.
>> but how do we use this feature.
One use case would be - I am making changes to a disk fs (like ext2, or any other) and I want to test it, but I don't have a extra device neither I want to create a new partition, I'll format a file and use it as a device.
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Sunil.
Hi Rishi,
You can now do a mkfs on that particular file, mount it and do
whatever you can do with a normal block device.
Read more about "loopback devices".
Also, try googling for "Hari Paranjape + Device Mappers".
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, rishi agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I would like to know about the use of "losetup".
>
Attaching here is not a simple attaching, remember that. The actual
> By use I want mean that in what all situations will I use losetup. Its
> okay that it attaches a loop device to any regular file but how do we
>
mechanism lies here only.
Regards,
> use this feature.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rishi B. Agrawal
>
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>> in what all situations will I use losetup.
>> but how do we use this feature.
One use case would be - I am making changes to a disk fs (like ext2, or any other) and I want to test it, but I don't have a extra device neither I want to create a new partition, I'll format a file and use it as a device.
--
Sunil.
