On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 12:04 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Warren Sturm wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 10:55 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > > snip > > > >> You can not loopback mount then entire drive. But you can mount a > >> partition as long as you know the offset to it using the offset > >> option when loop mounting. Read the loop mount options in the mount > >> man page. Once you use dd-rescue to make an image file of the drive, > >> you should be able to use all the same tools on the image file as > >> you would on the drive itself. > >> > >> Now, if anyone know how to generate the partition devices from an > >> image file, so you could mount the different partitions without > >> using the offset option of loop mounting, I would love to hear about it. > >> > > > > I believe you can use losetup for specifying the offset. > > > Thanks, but that is not what I am after. (I talked about the offset > option of loop mounts as part of my answer.) What I would like to > know about is how to create the equivalent of /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, > etc from an image file.The image file is equivalent to /dev/sda. > I have not been able to do that without using the loopback offset short of using something like vmware and making a virtual disk out of the image. > Mikkel > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
