Hello all, Today I encountered a situation where I had to mount a single partition off a whole hard-disk image, and I was wondering if there's a better way than that I chose.
Starting from the beginning, I had an image of an entire disk (MBR, partition table, everything) that had several partition on it - a complete dd backup. In order to get a single file off a certain partition, I did the following: 1. losetup the image file to /dev/loop0 2. fdisk /dev/loop0, and displaying partition information in byte-units, thus gaining byte offsets in the image of my desired partition (start + end). 3. dd-ing that partition off the image to a separate file. 4. mounting that file directly, taking away my file. Mission successful - although I'd like to ask if there's a better way. Problems with this method are: 1. You can losetup a file with an offset, but I couldn't find any size parameter available. That could save me the time (and disk space) of extracting the partition off the image (I could losetup it directly from the image file). 2. Is there a direct way to access the partition on that kind of an image? (fdisk uses the /dev/loop0p1 notation, but no traces of that sort of thing in my /dev...). Thanks. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
