Re: support for writing file systems on sparse disk images

To: Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>, current-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: support for writing file systems on sparse disk images
From: Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:05:11 +1100

On 8/10/2009 8:14 AM, Antti Kantee wrote:

Filesystem                      1K-blocks       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
/usr/home/pooka/wd0.img%PART:a%     338471     256211      65337  79% /puffs
=== SNIP ===

So you specify the partition number as %PART:n%, where is n is obviously
the partition number.  Other than that, things work as usual.  No vnconfig
etc. necessary.


Nice ... it's much easier to know what's going on at a glance :)

Just to clarify, you can mount sparse images with no issue using thismethod?


Sarton

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