On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:01:37AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 
> >mount -o loop,offset=xxx myfile /dev/whatever
> 
> What does the offset=xxx do ? It does not exist on my version. Does it 
> indicate the offset of the filesystem image in the file ?

Yes. 

> If so, what version of mount etc is this ?

2.11y has it, but I don't recall this as a particularly new feature,
especially since util-linux development has been glacial until
recently. Which mount and losetup are you using?

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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