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klingtnet/create-an-ext4-blockdevice-as-file.sh

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Use a file as blockdevice (experiment with filesystem options)
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create-an-ext4-blockdevice-as-file.sh
#!/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/blockdevicefile bs=1M count=2K oflag=sync status=progress
mkfs.ext4 /tmp/blockdevicefile
mkdir /tmp/mountpath && sudo mount -o loop /tmp/blockdevicefile /tmp/mountpath
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