From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 08:32:08 CEST
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:17:27PM +0200, jef knoors nicely wrote:
> Hello you all,
>
> I found a nice way to set up a temp directory without the mkfs.ext2 comand
> and its lib's.
> It saves you a lot of diskspace/or you can create /tmp before or without
> configuring USR.
He-he: you know deeply the problem.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1k count=300
> mkfs.ext2 tempfile
> gzip tempfile
>
> put the tempfile.gz on you base-floppy, after booting it do this:
> gzip -d tempfile.gz
> cat tempfile /dev/ram3
> mount -o loop /dev/ram3 /tmp
>
> The tempfile.gz is only 624 byte !
Very intelligent solution. I think, we can eliminate also the loop
device: with
gzip -d tempfile > /dev/ram3
mount /dev/ram3 /tmp
This work perfectly, because tempfile is complete filesystem.
Using this genial trick, I can remove libext2 from ROOT, moving
it in highly compressed USR.
Michele
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