> I got the loopback working and can see all the partitions in the image. > Since its a volume managed device I'm now stuck. I can see the > partitions but I can't think of how to get around the lvm part to mount > them and see the actual contents. I'm not that lvm proficient quite yet. I used the following to figure it out. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ You'll probably need to do /sbin/vgscan to figure out the lvm name then run /sbin/vgchange -a y; mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/whatever can't remember how I arrived at VolGroup00/LogVol00 but think there is an explanation in the how-to Shawn