File system tricks

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Fri Sep 28 16:13:48 EST 2001


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:

> Are there drivers to mount partitions?  Could I fool the normal driver
> into using a file as a partition?  Failing that, does anyone have a way
> that I could copy a partition out of a disc image file?

Tried the "offset" option to the loop filing system under mount?

Yours,
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