Re: Access DOS partition with loop-image

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sat Feb 24 2001 - 20:57:19 CET


On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Marco Pfatschbacher nicely wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im using version 11r2 and cloned it
> to a loop-image on my DOS partition (hda1).
>
> Now under mu-lin I'm unable to get access
> to the DOS partition from where mu-lin mounted its root-image.

Yes, this is a limitation of this kind of cloning.

>
> $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c
>
> says that /dev/hda1 is already mounted.
>

Indeed: this is already mounted on the mount point /loop. But,
the mounting is made when Mu is still in RAM. After that, the new
root-fs become the loop filesystem and the /loop directory is
not accessible anymore.
Sorry, I do not know how to resolve this problem.

If you can, it is better to clone EXT2fs.

Michele

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