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From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Creating phony floppies on the fly
Keywords: Hard Drive, Device drivers
Message-ID: <192118ea.ARN0ce8@umcvmb.missouri.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 20:14:46 GMT
Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster)
Organization: Hackers without Hard Drives
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I would like to create temporary floppy sized partitions on my hard drive. 
That is, i would like to create any number of these "phony floppies" on my
hard drive without reformating.  When I am done with them I would like to be 
able to remove them and get the space back.
 
A while back I read a little blurb in AmigaWhirrled about a device driver
for making floppy sized partitions on hard drives but little was said
beyond that.  Also, a device driver was mentioned recently that could
handle file-based devices.  Would this do the trick?
 
If they would, is it possible to mount an arbitrary file system on this
"pony floppy"?  That is, OFS, FFS, MSH?
 
I think this would be very usefull for doing things like processing a new
batch of fish disks retreived off the net.
 
Eric Edwards:  c506634 @  "I say we take off and nuke the entire site
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