[BusyBox] losetup applet

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Tue Mar 13 12:45:45 UTC 2001


Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any reason for not having a "losetup" applet in BusyBox?
> 
> Thanks /
> 
> magnus
> 

You dont actually need losetup unless you want encryption.

e.g.

dd if=/dev/zero of=loopfs bs=1k count=1000
mkfs.ext2 -F loopfs
mount -o loop loopfs /mnt


Glenn





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