I need expert help on this one...
There exists a file with an image of a disk... a whole disk, with
threee partitions, one primary, and two logical. If I do:
# losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img
# fdisk -l /dev/loop0
Disk /dev/loop0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 32 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/loop0p1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/loop0p2 3 32 240975 5 Extended
/dev/loop0p5 3 15 104391 83 Linux
/dev/loop0p6 16 32 136521 83 Linux
This is actually an image I created trying to solve the problem
for another fellow. Right now I'm at wits end. How do I get
at those /dev/loop0px partitions? If I want to get at the
data in /dev/loop0p5, I could try offsetting the start of data
using the appropriate losetup switch, but that would concatenate
/dev/loop0p6 to the end of it. If I just try to mount (well, I'd
have to create a FS on the partition to do that, but for the sake
of arguement...) /dev/loop0p5 on a stub, the device special file
doesn't exist. I could mknod it into existance, but what major
and minor numbers to use? It seems like they should all be
block-major 7 (for loopback devices), but what minor to use?
Or, more importanly, can it even be done without having to do
some kind of black-magic?
Any guiding light appreciated...
-Chuck
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