mounting "partitions"

Tue Mar 1 00:47:43 PST 2005

On Tuesday, 1. March 2005 03:26, George Georgalis wrote:
> I'm having difficulty "mouning a file on the loopback device"...
>
> I created a file, (from linux to dfly) like so:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 | ssh dfly "dd of=/usr/hda1.dd"
>
> I'd like to (as expressed in linux world)
>
> mount -olo /usr/hda1.dd /mnt && rsync --delete -avessh /mnt/
> linux:/mnt/hda1/
>
> the filesystem happens to be fat32, so I guess I need to enable that in
> the kernel, and what else? I don't see lo as a mount option... (for now
> I've just dd-ed back the whole thing)

you want:
vnconfig(8) -c -v /dev/vn0c file, mount -t msdos vn0c /mnt (about that)

cheers
  simon

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