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SubjectRe: Partitioned loop device..
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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 10:53, Josh Litherland wrote:
> In article <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> you wrote:
> > so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support to the loop
> > driver itself.
>
> Working with sector images of hard drives? I use Linux for data
> recovery jobs and it would be very helpful to me to be able to look at
> DOS partitions inside a loopback device. As it is I must chunk it up
> into seperate files by hand.

Like I said, this exact thing can be done using Device-Mapper and EVMS. No
need to add new partitioning support to the loop driver.

Generally, EVMS does not look for loop devices when scanning for disks to use,
but I have a simple patch (to the EVMS tools) that will allow it to recognize
loop devices. Let me know if you're interested.

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Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/

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