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From: Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Gparted questions
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 02:46:53 -0000 (UTC)
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vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com writes:
> 
> How do you put a partition inside a partition?
> 

A partition, or a filesystem??

We tend to use both of these terms interchangeably, but they ARE NOT THE
SAME THING.

Normally we fill a disk-partition with just one filesystem, though  MBR
'extended partitions' can hold several 'logical partitions'.

This most likely what you wanted the answer to, but you CAN put a 'partition' within a
partition by formatting a normal file as a filesystem.

So (for instance) you might have a 100MB partition that hold ten 10 MB
files, each of which holds a filesystem and each of those can be mounted
just like a disk-partition can be mounted.

====================================
#!/bin/bash
#jvs script "loopmount"
# mounts .iso image file on /cd
# mounts filesystem-file on mount-point
#
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
        MOUNTPOUNT=$2
else
        MOUNTPOUNT=/cd
fi

if [ "$3" != "" ]; then
        TYPE=$3
else
        TYPE=iso9660
fi

if [ -z $1 ]; then
        echo "usage: loopmount   <imagefile-name>  ( will be mounted on /cd )  (will be iso9660)"
        echo "       loopmount   <imagefile-name>    <mount-point>              <filesystem type>"
else
        LOOP=$(sudo losetup --find --show $1)
        echo "sudo /bin/mount -t${TYPE} -oloop $LOOP  $MOUNTPOUNT"
        sudo /bin/mount -t${TYPE} -oloop $LOOP $MOUNTPOUNT
fi
====================================

Regards,

Jack
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