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10 Oct

lomount – easy mounting of partitioned loop images

Mounting a loop file that is a filesystem is no problem
losetup /dev/loop0 my_loop_image
mount /dev/loop my_mount_point

or
mount -o loop my_loop_image my_mount_point
BUT, what if my loop image has partitions?

08 Oct

resize loop disk image

Having started to play with xen on linux, I have begun to use loop filesystems (a filesystem embedded in a file) rather a lot.
Xen virtual servers are, fairly often, run from within a loop filesystem and generally start with a fairly small file (1GB is big for a normal file, but not when it is [...]

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