Re: storing a Filesystem in a file

[Matti Aarnio]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:46:26PM -0700, sankarshana rao wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a requirement to create a file system in a file
> . Is this possible???

Like previous responder said, copying a device content (partition,
or whole device full) to a file is trivialish.

If you want to create a filesystem (like e.g. ramdisk-images are
created when builing kernel installation), then you do need a device
called 'loop'.  See 'man losetup'.

> thx in advance...

/Matti
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