Subject: Re: Filesystems vs. device sector sizes
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/26/2007 16:42:06
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:04:20 -0400
"Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it work to simply write an ISO to a slice of a hard disk and
> mount it with mount_cd9660? I don't think I've ever tried this. I
> think I tried it with a USB key once and it didn't, but that was a
> long time ago and I'm not even sure I was using NetBSD. I think I
> might've been trying to chainload an ISO image using GRUB, though, so
> maybe I just never tried to mount it outright.
>
I do that all the time via vnd, but I've never tried it with a disk
slice.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb