On Thursday 24 March 2005 22:57, Jim Carter wrote: > The only problem is, there's no easy way on the host to mount a partition > (that I know of). You need a working UML, and you temporarily attach the > image file to it and do your thing.
Blaisorblade posted a handy script here a while back that lets you do that. You nee to tell mount to use an offset to skip to the first partition (I suppose you can mount other partitions with the right offset too, don't know if the script supports this though) What I have not found yet is a way to create a filesystem on a newly partitioned file without resorting to a uml. -- with kind regards, Jelle Booomstra ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
