On 04/30 10:47, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > On 2020-04-30 22:21, Andrea Conti wrote: > > It won't, as long as it recognizes it as a protective MBR. Which is the > > right thing to do, as a disk with a protective MBR and no valid GPT is > > inherently broken. > > True. It was more my intention to depict what the system "should" do in > order to access the file system. > > > ... or just bypass the partition table altogether. The filesystem starts > > at sector 1, i.e. 1*512B, so: > > > > mount -o ro,offset=512 /dev/sdb /mnt/xxx > > Interesting, thanks. I was initially considering something like this myself, > but after a cursory check of the manual, I was under the assumption that > 'offset' was only valid with loop devices and dismissed that solution. > > Turns out if you mount a drive like this, the kernel uses a loop device in > the background and you can use the 'offset' option with block devices as > well. I feel the documentation could be improved here. > > -- > Wolf >
Hi Andrea, hi Wolf does my posting from this morning reached you ? ...I did not received anything back from the mailinglist... Cheers! Meino
