Hamish Moffatt writes: > > > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about > > > from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't > > > it still need to be a ro file system? > > > > You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, and then mount it. > > See the losetup(8) man page for details. > > > > And no, it wouldn't be ro. > > Although you need to make a file of the desired size first so you have > something to losetup. > > eg for 10mb file system, > > dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=10240 > losetup /dev/loop0 file > mke2fs /dev/loop0 > mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt
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