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I have heard there is a way to create a file in a filesystem which will can be configured as a raw device? Does anyone know the commands for doing that?

Ron Watkins
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Indeed there is, it's one of the "loopback device" capability.

You need to create the file and then associate it with a loopback using "losetup".

Eg:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file bs=4k count=20k
losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/file
silmaril
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