Re: Loopback device

[Vincent Pelletier]

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Marco Gerards wrote:
| I could add an argument for that.  Such thing is not hard.  But I
| don't have a harddisk image around to test this.
|
| Can someone suggest a good image (bochs or so) that has multiple
| partitions and filesystems so I can test this?  I prefer ext2.

That could be easily be generated :
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=your_image bs=512 count=...
$ /sbin/parted your_image
mklabel ("help mklabel" to see the available types of partition table
available)
mkpartfs

I used that a lot to test grub support for SPT & SUN partition tables.

Vincent Pelletier
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