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> > $ cat MBR.img partition-table.img sda1.img sda2.img sda3.img sda4.img > > sda.img > > And in theory, one should be able to do the reverse: given a disk > image, pull out the MBR, partition table, and all partitions. > simple, (except the partition table) fdisk can investigate partition tables of disk images also. referenced from this article http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/80/how-to-transfer-linux-from-virtualbox-to-xen/ fdisk -lu myosimage.img To figure out where the root partition starts he just multiplied the start sector by the number of bytes per sector: 208845 * 512 = 106928640 I then did a quick test to make sure he had the correct partition: mount -o loop,offset=106928640 myosimage.img /mnt/ This looked good so he extracted the partition from the disk and did a filesystem check on it: dd if=myosimage.img of=mypartimage.img bs=512 skip=208845 count=3453974 e2fsck mypartimage.img QED -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
