[wplug] Looking for a way to work with disk images

[Christopher DeMarco]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:46:05PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:

> (i.e. mdconfig creates /dev/md4, which can be accessed as if it were
> a normal hard drive, such as /dev/ad0 or /dev/da0)

You can mount it as a "loopback" device - but that'll put the image
into your filesystem:

mount -o loop foo.img /mnt/foo

Or are you looking for the actual "create a block device"
functionality?


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