dump and ext3
Keith Morse
kgmorse at mpcu.com
Fri Jul 2 03:18:49 UTC 2004
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:14:48AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > ? Ad Wilts
>
> > Which brings up another issue. Under linux can I create and
> > mount a file system within a file on an existing file system
> > rather than on a separate disk partition? This would allow me
> > to at least try a restore operation using the space available
> > in the current file system.
>
> Look at mount --bind. I think this does what I think you want.
I was going to suggest creating a file with dd and then mount it with the
loopback option.
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