create a virtual floppy image without mount? [closed]
Yes, of course you can do this. Use mtools for the FAT and e2tools or genext2fs for the ext2 filesystems.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disk1.img count=1440 bs=1k 1440+0 records in1440+0 records out1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.00569719 s, 259 MB/s$ /sbin/mkfs.msdos /tmp/disk1.img mkfs.msdos 3.0.12 (29 Oct 2011)$ mdir -i /tmp/disk1.img Volume in drive : has no label Volume Serial Number is 9913-BFF6Directory for ::/No files 1 457 664 bytes free$ mcopy -i /tmp/disk1.img /etc/issue.net ::/$ mdir -i /tmp/disk1.img Volume in drive : has no label Volume Serial Number is 9913-BFF6Directory for ::/issue net 28 2012-06-26 10:49 1 file 28 bytes 1 457 152 bytes freeAnd of course, I have no root rights.