Creating A Browseable Virtual File Archive In Linux

In Linux, there are many ways to create a virtual file archive. A virtual file archive is a storage file which immitates an inode storage device, meaning its similar to what a physical drive can do but contained in a single archive. So how do we create this virtual file archive? What we will be using is the most primitive way to create a virtual file archive using Linux built in tool set.

The secret to happiness is freedom…​ And the secret to freedom is courage.
— Thucydides.

Prerequisites

The tooling that we will be using is already built in Linux. To be transparent what I’m currently using is Arch Linux.

  • dd
  • losetup
  • mount

So what do we do now?

Create the file that will be using as file archive.

dd if=/dev/zero of=gem.bin bs=1024 count=0 seek=1G

Setup a loop block device to handle input/output (emulating physical drives).

losetup /dev/loop0 gem.bin

Create the mountable directory.

mkdir -p /mnt/vfa

Mount the loop block device to the mountable directory.

mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /mnt/vfa

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