Sunday, May 29, 2011

Mounting Loopback Device on Synology

DSM 3.1 and 1511+, should work on other models.

 

First you will need to load the loop device kernel module

insmod /usr/lib/modules/loop.ko

Then you will need to initialise the loop back device with your image.

Check for a free loop device

losetup -f

If you don't have one do

mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0

Then mount the loop device to the image.

losetup /dev/loop0 <img>

Then mount the loopback device to the filesystem

mount -t <filesystem> /dev/loop0 <mount point>

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