Mounting partitions of a loopback device
Karel Zak
kzak at redhat.com
Thu Aug 21 10:03:05 UTC 2008
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:12:34PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> I found today, that I was unable to mount or detect partitions in a loop
> back device that I had configured via losetup.
>
> Was there any discussion on the LKML about this patch or is there anyone
> "championing" it into the kernel?
> http://lwn.net/Articles/274113/
I see the patch in Linus's tree:
commit 476a4813cfddf7cf159956cc0e2d3c830c1507e3
Author: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier at bull.net>
Date: Wed Mar 26 12:11:53 2008 +0100
loop: manage partitions in disk image
and it works for me:
# ./losetup -f -s /root/kzak/disk.img
/dev/loop0
# ls -la /dev/loop0*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 0 2008-08-21 11:34 /dev/loop0
brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 1 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 2 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 3 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p3
# mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt
# ls -la /mnt
total 21
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2008-08-21 11:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2008-07-14 10:07 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2008-08-21 11:52 lost+found
# uname -a
Linux ppc03.englab.brq.redhat.com 2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ppc64 #1
SMP Mon Jul 7 22:29:44 EDT 2008 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
Karel
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