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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mounttool
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:35:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640611121235j3b1260b5tbd4bad338a5c8461@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611112035.04170.uwix@iway.na>

On 11/11/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> some distros come with a little utility called "mounttool". I can loop mount
> images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't
> seem to find it in gentoo. Does it hide somewhere? Or can someone recommend a
> similar tool in portage?

What's wrong with:

losetup /dev/loop/0 <image>
cryptsetup create decrypted_image /dev/loop/0
mount /dev/mapper/decrypted_image /mnt/encrypted

-Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-12 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-11 18:35 [gentoo-user] mounttool Uwe Thiem
2006-11-12 20:35 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-11-13  6:05   ` Uwe Thiem

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