[CentOS] mount -o loop question.

Jobst Schmalenbach jobst at barrett.com.au
Wed Oct 24 05:45:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:08:38AM -0500, Robert Nichols (rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net) wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 03:44 AM, Banyan He wrote:
> > btw, here is the way to append more bytes on the tail,
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1 count=no_of_bytes seek=$(stat -c%s myfile)
> 
> Sounds like a hard way to do
>      dd conv=notrunc oflag=append if=/dev/zero ...

was thinking more of a LVM way to do this.

Jobst



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