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curaga

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Posted: Sep. 08 2007,13:00

Don't use winrar! That would mean you're in M$, not having a filesystem with proper permissions (ie editing and saving there would cause big trouble)

BTW how could winrar see the contents? Does it understand ext2 loops nowadays?

It's a filesystem, you don't need a specific app to edit it, just mount it in Linux..

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Posted: Sep. 08 2007,14:25

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BTW how could winrar see the contents? Does it understand ext2 loops nowadays?

Probably just gunzip'ing it.

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Posted: Sep. 08 2007,18:20

Ok, I should have said modify instead of edit. I know it's a file system, I just thought winrar would uncompress the file and allow me a quick view of the file system.

So I tried:
gunzip minirt24.gz

that created minirt24 in /tmp
then:
mount -o loop minirt24 /tmp

Nothing happened. The command prompt returned with no messages. Minirt24 did not mount as near as I can tell.

Now What?

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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,08:12

well you obviously can't mount over itself!

When you mount in a dir, the contents of the dir disappear for the duration of the mount. Move it elsewhere and then mount it

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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,15:06

That actually was pretty funny.

Ok I made a new directory /mnt/minirt and did:
mount -o loop /tmp/minirt24 /mnt/minirt

That seems to have done the trick.I can now see the file system.

Thanks

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