On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jon Ingason <jon.ingason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It does not work.
I cannot mount the image. The image itself is not a filesystem.
It is the Whole Disk image, which contains the NTFS partition.
The losetup command does accept an offset value. However, these values
have to be expressed as integers of KiB or MiB or GiB ...etc.
The NTFS partition starts at sector 63, which is not a multiple of 1KiB (1024 Bytes).
If the losetup command could accept an offset stated in sectors or in an arbitrary
integer number of bytes, the losetup could be used to access the partition within
the image and mount it.
Interestingly enough, the kernel loop driver looks at the offset as a number of sectors!
Cheers,
JD
2012-01-14 20:33, JD skrev:
Dear all,Why not just mount the file as described in "man mount":
I have a dd image of a windows disk.
I run
losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd
Then
fdisk -l /dev/loop0
and it shows there is 1 partition:
/dev/loop0p1 ....etc ..... etc.
However, I seem to have no way of mounting the partition, because
device loop0p1 does not exist in /dev directory.
Short of dumping the dd image onto another hard drive, is there
a way to mount the ntfs partition in the dd image?
THE LOOP DEVICE
One further possible type is a mount via the loop device. For
example, the command
mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop
will set up the loop device /dev/loop3 to correspond to
the file /tmp/disk.img, and then mount this device on /mnt.
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Regards
Jon Ingason
It does not work.
I cannot mount the image. The image itself is not a filesystem.
It is the Whole Disk image, which contains the NTFS partition.
The losetup command does accept an offset value. However, these values
have to be expressed as integers of KiB or MiB or GiB ...etc.
The NTFS partition starts at sector 63, which is not a multiple of 1KiB (1024 Bytes).
If the losetup command could accept an offset stated in sectors or in an arbitrary
integer number of bytes, the losetup could be used to access the partition within
the image and mount it.
Interestingly enough, the kernel loop driver looks at the offset as a number of sectors!
Cheers,
JD
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