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NieDzejkob / cursedfs, Hacker News

NieDzejkob / cursedfs, Hacker News
                    

        

Make a disk image formatted with both ext2 and FAT, at once.

  ~  / cursedfs% wget  

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https://github.com/NieDzejkob/cursedfs/releases/download/v1.0/cursed.img ' ~ / cursedfs% sudo mount -o loop -t ext2 cursed.img mountpoint / ~ / cursedfs% ls mountpoint / mkfs.cursed ~ / cursedfs% sudo umount mountpoint / ~ / cursedfs% sudo mount -o loop -t msdos cursed.img mountpoint / ~ / cursedfs% ls mountpoint / gudnuse.ogg

I got nerd-sniped

It turns out this is surprisingly simple to do: just create a FAT volume with a lot of reserved sectors and put the ext2 into the reserved sectors. This works Because the filesystems choose different places to put their superblock: FAT Uses the very first sector, while ext2 leaves the first kilobyte unused.

Yes! When I first decided to do this, I thought writing to the image would surely break everything, but as it turns out, the method I’ve found means the filesystems don’t conflict.

  

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