Re: Partitions on a loopback block device?

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:40:34 +0100, hadmut@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Would it be possible to have a loopback blockdevice recognize
>partition tables and to provide partitions as any other block device?
>
>Obviously, naming is not very elegant, but /dev/loopa0 would be a nice
>analogon to /dev/hda0 and /dev/sda0

Hi,

try this patch.

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/patches

>
>regards
>Hadmut

chau,
 djgera


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