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I would like to do a loopback filesystem, where can I get information
about how to do this?

/Mats

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:06:07 +0200, Mats Liljegren

First, create a file for your loopback (This will make a 10 meg file):

dd if=/dev/zero of=myloop bs=1048576 count=10

Now put a filesystem on it:

mke2fs myloop

now just mount it:

mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop1 myloop /mnt

Now just use it like you would any other filesystem.  You'll get a
couple of warnings with the above commands (like myloop not being a
regular block device), but it will work.

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