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Old 10-24-2003
Creating disk images
I'm sure this is an easy one to answer - how do I turn a directory into a disk image of the sort that is mountable via mount -o loop?

I've been playing with comressed ram disk images on floppies
(dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk1.img.gz; gzip -d disk1.img), and it seems that when i mount them and alter their structure and contents, the image file itself remains unchanged. All I'd like to know is how to roll my own - I've been thinking about setting up a few 1.44 meg logical partitions so i can just dd them into files, but surely there's an easier way...
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Old 10-27-2003
If anyone else has this problem,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt explains it in detail Smilie just avoid using /dev/ram0 O.o
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