[Trinux-talk] minix filesystems?

[David S. J. <ds...@sd...>]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Linux, and very new to Trinux.
What I'm looking to do is create a minix filesystem "in a file" (I don't
know if this is the correct term.) like initrd, as opposed to creating a
filesystem in a partition on a physical device.

I can create minix filesystems on partitions,
I can build an initrd.
I can achieve what I want by making a copy of initrd, renaming it,
mounting it, gutting it out and putting whatever files and structure I
want in, but to me this is a very klunky and backwards way of doing
something that seems like it could be very simple.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

~Dave

ds...@sd...
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