[wplug] floppy disk rescue

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:01, Zach wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Jonathan S. Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> > mount -o loop /path/to/floppy.img /mnt/floppy
>
> What is the benefit of using the loopback versus just mounting it
> without the "-o loop"?

Can't do it any other way. A dd image is not a real device. The loopback 
driver allows you to emulate physical storage devices using plain files.

-A