Don't use winrar! That would mean you're in M$, not having a filesystem with proper permissions (ie editing and saving there would cause big trouble)
BTW how could winrar see the contents? Does it understand ext2 loops nowadays?
It's a filesystem, you don't need a specific app to edit it, just mount it in Linux..
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BTW how could winrar see the contents? Does it understand ext2 loops nowadays?
Probably just gunzip'ing it.Ok, I should have said modify instead of edit. I know it's a file system, I just thought winrar would uncompress the file and allow me a quick view of the file system.
So I tried: gunzip minirt24.gz
that created minirt24 in /tmp then: mount -o loop minirt24 /tmp
Nothing happened. The command prompt returned with no messages. Minirt24 did not mount as near as I can tell.
Now What?well you obviously can't mount over itself!
When you mount in a dir, the contents of the dir disappear for the duration of the mount. Move it elsewhere and then mount it That actually was pretty funny.
Ok I made a new directory /mnt/minirt and did: mount -o loop /tmp/minirt24 /mnt/minirt
That seems to have done the trick.I can now see the file system.
