Re: [Xen-devel] accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> [if you are happy to reply at all, please reply cc'd thank you.]
>
> hi,
>  
Hi Luke,

> the question is, therefore:
>
>         * how the hell do you loopback mount (or lvm mount
>           or _anything_! something!)  partitions that have
>           been created in a loopback'd file!!!!
>  
See http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-December/012627.html

In summary, if you have a single partition then you can use the 
following command:
mount -o loop,offset=32256 loop.img /mnt

There's mention of a replacement loopback driver that supports 
partitions but a quick google'ing didn't turn anything up.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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