21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
1:40 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:27:46PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 21-Nov-07 13:18:39, Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:01:08PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
I had tried "lofs linux howto" and didn't get much useful. It seems that loopback is the key word rather than lofs.
It turns out that 'man losetup' tells you just about all you need to know about this. Just what I need.
And who (not already knowing) would have suspected that?!
Prior to googling, I had tried
apropos loopback
and drew a blank. I should have tried
apropos loop
Gives you a lot of other stuff, but losetup is also in there!
"man mount" would have been a reasonable place to look for info on mounting things, and has a section on "THE LOOP DEVICE" including a pointer to losetup.
J.
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