Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:33:49 +0100 (MET) | From | Szakacsits Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: Any workaround for mounting an image file (with loop device) which resides on NTFS? |
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> Scenario: I placed one disk image (image.dd) on a NTFS volume (it's > the only partition where I have some available space) and my idea was > to first mount NTFS partition as /mnt/ntfs, and afterwards mounting > /mnt/ntfs/image.dd (ext3) with loop device. > > I'm getting the following error at the second mount command: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument
Only the rewritten (new, version 2) ntfs driver supports this, see for more
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html
People and some distros use loopback mount from NTFS for r/w for over a year with the new driver. Nobody reported problems.
Szaka
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