Re: [flalug] application question

From: smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Mar 20 2005 - 16:00:35 EST


On Sunday 20 March 2005 15:41, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, smitty wrote:
snip
> > Actually cds of my radio programs which are about one hour in length.
>
> How big is the iso (10 KB, 10 MB, whatever)?

It varies.
>
> > > > why is the loopback mount significant?
> > >
> > > It interprets a filesystem within a file, which is itself in a
> > > filesystem.
> >
> > Do you mean different filesystems, as a file is one filesystem and the
> > directory it is in is another?
>
> Like this:
>
> [root@pc isos]# ls -lhsCF sy*
> 110M systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.15.iso
> [root@pc isos]# mount systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.15.iso /mnt/temp -o ro,loop
> [root@pc isos]# mount | grep sys
> /mnt/auto/dvd2b/isos/systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.15.iso on /mnt/temp type
> iso9660 (ro,loop=/dev/loop1) [root@pc isos]# ls /mnt/temp
> bootdisk isolinux loadlin manual oscar syslinux sysrcd.dat
> [root@pc isos]#



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