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Hi Corona688,

Thanks for pointing the FAT-12 issue out. I changed my disk format to FAT-16. Following is my new HEXDUMP:


$ sudo hexdump -C /dev/loop0 | head

00000000 eb 3c 90 6d 6b 64 6f...

Hi Corona688,

Thanks a lot for pointing that out. I've been doing some reading & now I feel going for the FAT-12(classical floppy disk) format file system would be the best idea as it was the 1st...

Hi Corona688,

Thank you very very much for the immense support you've given me throughout this thread. I've learned a lot from you since I started this thread :). I understand what I should do and...

Hi Corona688,

I found the following article through a Google search(while awaiting your reply) on creating a floppy drive with the loop back device and got it mounted.


CREATING A Virtual...

Hi Corona688,

I think going with the MS-DOS filesystem (FAT-16) is a much better Idea. I formatted my current loop back device using the command you gave as follows :


$ sudo fsck.msdos -F 16...

Hi Corona688,

So you mean I should find how the ext3 (as I've formatted my loop back disk with ext3 with mkfs tool) creates files & directories on the hard disk drive ?. Is that approach correct...

Hi Corona688,

I just reorganized my code & came up with the following structure & it works like a charm. But I'm still having trouble creating a file inside the block device using the

int...

Hi Corona688,

I used your code & it works like a charm. I organized the code into simple separate functions as shown below.



#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include...

Hi Corona688,

Could you please give me an example code sample using the above 03 methods. A pointer to get me started on them ?. Because I feel I'll have to deal with the file descriptor at some...

Hi dsw,

Thanks for the reply. I will check that.

HI dsw,

I changed the permissions of the /dev/loop0 to chmod 777 & then ran the command you gave and got the following results :


brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2011-01-26 16:39 /dev/loop0

...

Hi all,

I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a...