From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyD4b-0006Nz-OX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:25:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SINi41020309; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:23:44 GMT Received: from redweb.harvee.org (dsl093-191-107.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.191.107]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6SIJAkD014653 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:19:10 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by redweb.harvee.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4338976D51 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:19:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from harvee.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by redweb.harvee.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC6F76D51 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:19:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.28] ([192.168.0.28]) by harvee.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j6SITUA6016532 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:29:30 -0400 Message-ID: <42E92193.6020804@harvee.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:18:59 -0400 From: "Eric S. Johansson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] question about files as disks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Camram: capability; stamp X-Archives-Salt: a339b2dc-e648-4db5-9518-feb51d5ff2d8 X-Archives-Hash: 9cf633ded79151b9e9cf31740456add9 I'm helping some people using gentoo and one of the tasks is the production of flash memory updates for the firewall. The script for producing flash images contains calculations determining sector offsets so that the disk image can be treated as a partitioned disk. Is there anyway to treat a file as if it were a physical disk from the partitioning through mounting of each individual partition and its unmounting? I can keep doing it the clumsy error-prone way if I need to him but I was just trying to find out if there was an option that reduced the opportunity for mistakes. ---eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list