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Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:14 am**

Hi Guys,

I am running Pro 1.1 natively on F (stock drive) and what I would like to do is mount a roofs type file on E just for a little bit of extra storage for my web-site.

I would like to make this about a gig in size and then mount it using loopback.

I tried just doing a redirect in the apache config files, something like this

From /extraspace/
To /mnt/fatx/e/extraspace/

Unfortunately apache does not have permission to read from /mnt/fatx/e/extraspace/ so I thought the rootfs thing would be my best bet (could be wrong

).

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also if the rootfs option is the best way to go, some help with this would be great.

Many thanks.
Xboxgeek

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:09 pm**

The steps are create the file, make the filesystem, create a mount point, add it to fstab,mount the file.

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fatx/e/path/of/new/filesystem bs=1024k count=<size in MB i.e 1024 for 1GB>
yes | mkreiserfs -f /mnt/fatx/e/path/of/new/filesystem
mkdir /mnt/path/of/new/mount/point

then edit fstab and add the entry using reiserfs for filesystem and loop,defaults for options and mount your partition using

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mount /mnt/path/of/new/mount/point

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:35 pm**

Many thanks I have got upto the edit fstab part but I am a bit confused

This is my mount point for my native partition on F:-

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# <file system> <mount point> <type>    <options>                     <dump> <pass>
 /dev/hda2       /            reiserfs  defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1

Where do I get the hda number from? doI just make it up like hda55 like this?

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# <file system> <mount point> <type>    <options>                     <dump> <pass>
 /dev/hda55       /webdata            reiserfs  defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1

Note:- I now have a 1gig file in the root of E called webdata.

Many thanks.
Xboxgeek

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:41 pm**

try

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/mnt/fatx/e/webdata         /webdata      reiserfs     loop,defaults    0   0

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:10 pm**

Many thanks nobspangle. It worked a treat

.

Cheers.
Xboxgeek

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Would like to mount a small rootfs file on E?

Would like to mount a small rootfs file on E?