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Create an ext3 fs image

Which I will use as a loop mount mounted on an arbitrary directory, say /home/me/dir running something like mount -o loop ext3_image.img /home/me/dir

What command(s) should I run to create this? I use RedHat.

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Easy as pie.

Code:

dd if=/dev/whatever of=/path/to/ext3.img

Note you cannot do this while the filesystem is mounted!

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