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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!maspab
- From: maspab@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P A Broadbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can I make/mount a filesystem in a file?
- Summary: Yup.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.124856.629@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 12:48:56 GMT
- References: <1d951rINN242@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Nov5.042647.17167@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1dfgbuINNrhi@uwm.edu>
- Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
- >I think I remember this thread coming up before, but I don't remember if
- >it was satisfactorily answered...
- >
- >Can I create a file (maybe with "dd if=/dev/zero of=filename count=$size")
- >in which I could make a filesystem ("mkfs filename $size")
- >and then mount that filesystem?
-
- Try using the user_dd patches in the ALPHA directory on tsx-11. They
- allow you to create block devices which talk to a user level program,
- and a supplied client does just what you ask.
-
- There is also a 'ramdisk' program which is a cool way of loading HJ's
- {base,gcc,lib}disks without wasting a floppy (or uncompressing the
- image). ramdisk in quotes 'cos it spends most its time swapped out...
-
- BTW, is anybody maintaining this program?
-
- Pete
- pab@maths.bath.ac.uk
-