On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:49:59PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> I'm curious enough about ReiserFS that I want to play with it, but not
> curious enough to devote a whole partition to it just yet. So I thought
> I'd create a big file somewhere, put a filesystem in it, and "mount -o
> loop" it. Alas, mkreiserfs won't let me get away with it:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=reiserfs.raw bs=4096 count=10240
> 10240+0 records in
> 10240+0 records out
>
> # mkreiserfs reiserfs.raw
>
> <-------------mkreiserfs, 2000------------->
> reiserfsprogs 3.x.0d
> mkreiserfs: reiserfs.raw is not a block special device.
>
> Is there a way to create a ReiserFS in a regular file?
>
> This is with Linux 2.4.2 (specifically the "kernel-source-2.4.2" package
> from Progeny Debian 1.0) and reiserfsprogs 3.x.0d.
>
losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/reiserfs.raw
mkreiserfs /dev/loop0
mount it, play with it, umount it,
losetup -d /dev/loop0 ; rm /path/to/reiserfs.raw
man losetup for more info.
Jean-Francois Landry
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