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- From: fasciano@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: mounting a filesystem from a regular file
- Message-ID: <FASCIANO.92Dec16232915@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 04:29:15 GMT
- Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA
- Organization: Universite de Montreal -- Laboratoire Incognito
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- Hi,
-
- are there any patches for 0.99 that would allow mounting a filesystem
- from a file instead of a device? i would like to use ext-fs for a
- small number of directories, but i don't feel like repartitioning...
- since swapping can be done from files, it would seem logical that
- mouting a fs should also be possible. of course, it would probably be
- very slow compared to a real partition, but i only need it for
- manpages and stuff that isn't time-critical.
-
- Thanks in advance
- Massimo-
-
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