[ale] how to mount an initrd file?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 18:26 -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> I thought this was a straightforward task, but I'm having trouble 
> mounting an initrd.img file.  When I try:
> 
> mount -o loop initrd.img directory_to_mount_to
> 
> I'm getting a "must specify filesystem" error.  Does anyone have any 
> idea on what I'm doing wrong?  Can I not mount this initrd.img file or 
> am I in fact, not specifying the correct filesystem?  I've tried -t 
> ext2  and -t ext3 (and -t tmpfs and -t cramfs), but to no adeu.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

1. run file initrd.img first. That will tell you what type of file it
is .

2. Most likely, you will need to uncompress it. Use zcat instead of
gunzip. The uncompressed file will be loopback mountable one.

Note: if you modify the mounted image file, you may have some fun
getting it to reclose. Unless there is some space left in the filesystem
created for it, you can't add anything. When you recompress it, you will
most likely need to use the max compression flag (--best) again with
zcat (or do a rename on the final file).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> CB
> 
> 
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