This is really handy for doing staging of CDROMs and such before burning them. You are creating a filesystem that runs of a flat file
1. Make a 20MB file of zeroes
dd if=/dev/zero of=plaintext.img bs=1M count=20
2. Associate the file with a loopback devicelosetup /dev/loop0 plaintext.img
3. Make a filesystemmkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0
4. Mount itmount /dev/loop0 (mount point)
-- MattWalsh - 11 Jan 2004 
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