[lug] q: late allocation for file backed filesystem

[Will]

All you need to do is create a sparse file to hold your file system.

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/664

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Kar Heng Chan <chankarheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tried searching but didn't manage to find much info...
>
> I asked some months back & learnt that it's possible to use a file as a
> file system.
> ie: /tmp/myfs can be mounted & formatted to ext2fs, hold some files, etc.
> /tmp/myfs would be created using dd, so that it has a fixed size.
>
> Am wondering if it's possible to do late file size allocation (ala VMWare)?
>
> Thanks & best regards,
>
> KarHeng
>
>
>
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