17.4.43 loopback

Command: loopback [-d] [-D] device file

Make the device named device correspond to the contents of the filesystem image in file. For example:

loopback loop0 /path/to/image
ls (loop0)/

Specifying the -D option allows the loopback file to be tranparently decompressed if there is an appropriate decompressor loaded.

With the -d option, delete a device previously created using this command.