On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:47:34AM -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:40:47AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > > I have a dd image of a disk with 4 partitions (partition 1 > > vfat; 2 swap; 3 ext3; 4 ext3). Normally you can mount > > partition images with -o loop, but you have to specify the > > fstype (-t vfat or in the case of a cdrom -t iso9660). Since > > you have to specify the fstype, I assume that you can only > > mount a dd image if it's all one fstype. I don't know how to > > mount a whole disk containing several partitions. Is there a > > way of mounting the image so it looks like a disk, so I can > > look at the partition table and delete/add partitions, do > > mke2fs etc? > > > > Thanks Joe > > Use the "-o <offset>" option of losetup to position to the start of the > partitions of interest.
http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/linux_loopback.html gives more details on how to find what offset to use. -- David W. Aquilina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
