Re: [uml-devel] Partitioning scheme for ubd's

[Henrik N. <hn...@ma...>]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, BlaisorBlade wrote:

> 2) if I do an install, I can partition the ubd's; but then, I won't be able to 
> loop mount the file on the host

There is no problem to mount partitions of a larger device file on the
host. All you need to do is to note the start sector of the partition (and
size if you should want to newfs the partition). The easies way to read
the partition table from the host is to use sfdisk
   sfdisk -d /path/to/backingfile.img
then multiply the sector by 512 to get the starting offset of the 
partition for the loopback mount.

Regards
Henrik