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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Creating phony floppies on the fly
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Date: 14 May 91 19:05:08 GMT
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c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) writes:
>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
>Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu  from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure."
>Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet      -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_


Yep.  It's called Fsh, i don't recall off hand where i got it, but it does
just that, it creates a 880k file on your hard drive that can be used just
like a floppy, you can mount any file system you like.

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