[BusyBox] problem with mount command

[Doug Edwards]

At 2:06 PM +0200 7/10/02, tito wrote:
>On Tuesday 09 July 2002 22:41, you wrote:
>>  Hi all -
>>
>>  I'm having trouble with the mount command.  I'm using BusyBox 0.60.3
>>  with uclibc (snapshot dated June 6) as shared libraries on a ppc with
>>  the Linux 2.4.12 kernel.  I am not using a login.
>>
>>  I'm trying to create an ext2 filesystem. 
>Where? On a ramdisk? If this is your case, you can try:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram* bs=1k count=4096
>mke2fs /dev/ram*   (ram1 , ram2  as you need)
>mount /dev/ram* /mnt  -t ext2
>
>or on a file. In this case maybe:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=4096  (or whatever size you need)
>mke2fs file
>mount file -o loop /mnt  -t ext2
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Tito


Thanks Tito.  This solved the problem.  I was doing this from a 
ramdisk but trying to use /dev/loop0  (which is how I'm used to doing 
it under regular Linux).  Using /dev/ram worked great.

Thanks again.

Doug

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