On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:42:02 +0100 Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Are you sure about the partition support? I thought something related to > loop partition support has gone into some not so recent kernel. Sorry, you are correct, this was in fact added since 2.6.26. Just tried out making a partitioned loop device: dd if=/dev/zero of=100GB bs=1 count=1 seek=100G modprobe loop max_part=8 losetup /dev/loop7 100GB cfdisk /dev/loop7 [ made two partitions, commit, quit cfdisk ] [ ...but partitions did not automatically appear as /dev/loop7pX ] blockdev --rereadpt /dev/loop7 [ OK, now here they are: ] $ ls -la /dev/loop7p? brw-rw---T 1 root disk 7, 113 Feb 27 15:10 /dev/loop7p1 brw-rw---T 1 root disk 7, 114 Feb 27 15:10 /dev/loop7p2 -- With respect, Roman
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