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Creating a loopback filesystem

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Summary of this site: https://samindaw.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/mounting-a-file-as-a-file-system-in-linux/

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/big_file bs=1024 count=10000000
sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/big_file 
sudo mkfs -t ext4 -m 1 -v /dev/loop0
mkdir /mnt/my_mount_point
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/loop0 /mnt/my_mount_point

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