How to Create a Loopback File System

1. Become superuser.

2. Create the directory where you want to mount the loopback file system and give it the appropriate permissions and ownership.

3. Create a loopback file system.

   # mount -F lofs loopback-directory mount-point

   loopback-directory	The file system to be mounted at the loopback mount point.
   mount-point	The directory where the LOFS is mounted.

Example--Creating a Loopback File System

This example shows how to use a new loopback file system with the chroot command to provide a complete virtual file system view of a process or family of processes:

# mount -F lofs / /tmp/newroot
# chroot /tmp/newroot command

See lofs(7FS) or mount(1M) for more information.