[aklug] loop devices with partitions...?

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Hey, I recently learned you could represent an image file with a loop
device, which is pretty cool. So, you can create, say, /dev/loop0, and
then turn it into a file system with mkfs.xfs /dev/loop0 (or whatever
happens to be your poison).

I noticed I can, instead of turning it into just a file system, run
fdisk on it to turn it into a disk image with several partitions.
However, what I'm not sure about yet is, if /dev/loop0 represents the
disk.img file with several partitions on it, how do "bring out" each of
those partitions to be its own loop file? (Like, /dev/loop0-part1 or
something...?)

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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Received on Wed Sep 8 21:16:21 2010