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From: auj@aber.ac.uk (Alun "Da Penguin" Jones)
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In-Reply-To: Bernhard Mogens Ege <bme@vision.auc.dk> (Oct 8, 7:00am)
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Subject: Re: loopmount again
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Thusly Bernhard Mogens Ege scribed:
>
> I am looking for a way to say mount /mnt/dosc (like mount /mnt/adfs) to
> make linux mount that partition (extract the mising parts from
> /etc/fstab). It would need to issue the losetup command to do
> that. Would that be possible?
Recent versions of mount on the i386 version of Linux have a -oloop option
to make it do the losetup for you. Maybe you could compile this up.