From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268791AbTGOP77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268789AbTGOP6R (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:58:17 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:51171 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268577AbTGOP6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:58:06 -0400 From: Kevin Corry To: Josh Litherland Subject: Re: Partitioned loop device.. Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:04:49 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030715155317.317B461FDE@sade.emperorlinux.com> In-Reply-To: <20030715155317.317B461FDE@sade.emperorlinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307151104.49455.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 15 July 2003 10:53, Josh Litherland wrote: > In article <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> you wrote: > > so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support to the loop > > driver itself. > > Working with sector images of hard drives? I use Linux for data > recovery jobs and it would be very helpful to me to be able to look at > DOS partitions inside a loopback device. As it is I must chunk it up > into seperate files by hand. Like I said, this exact thing can be done using Device-Mapper and EVMS. No need to add new partitioning support to the loop driver. Generally, EVMS does not look for loop devices when scanning for disks to use, but I have a simple patch (to the EVMS tools) that will allow it to recognize loop devices. Let me know if you're interested. -- Kevin Corry kevcorry@us.ibm.com http://evms.sourceforge.net/