You could always just put
mount -t ext2 -o loop /path/to/image /usr/doc
into one of your startup scripts.
-CJO-
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Henning Rohde wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>could someone tell me, how to setup a loopback-filesystem.
>
>I would like to put /usr/doc on my VFAT-disc, because of the symbolic
>links this seems not to be possible.
>
>As a proper solution i thougt of putting it into a single file
>containing ext2fs.
>
>At the very first point i did:
> dd if=dev/zero of=mnt/vfat/usrdoc.fs bs=1024 count=16386
> mke2fs /mnt/vfat/usrdoc.fs
> mount /mnt/vfat/usrdoc.fs /usr/doc -o loopback
>
>So far it does work, but after rebooting, i have to setup /dev/loop0
>by losetup before mounting the file.
>
>I would like to have it mounted automatically at booting, how have i
>to setup /etc/fstab?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Henning Rohde
>
>By the way, is it possible to have this file compressed online?
>
>
C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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