Loop FS help please.
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jan 23 20:41:09 UTC 2008
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>
>> For some reason, I seem to have a mental block when trying to do a
>> mount of a loop filesystem.
>>
>> I have a copy of the f8 iso on disk, I would like to look inside of
>> it. Im sure that I can do that with a magic mount ... -o loop= ...
>> but cant seem to get it right.
>>
>
> In addition to using mount, which requires root privs, you could also
> use fuseiso to mount as a normal user. You can even use file-roller
> (the Gnome Archive Manager) to open and poke around in iso files.
>
>
I tried several of the suggested methods and the one with -t does
not work. With the t removed this works fine:
mount <isofile> /mnt/point/here -o loop
It is a bit easier to remember too. And my testing was on F8.
Karl
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