Re: sfdisk enhancement proposal - offset/shift support

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 02:31:55PM +0100, PrzemysÅaw 'Przemoc' PaweÅczyk wrote:
> I have following suggestion for sfdisk:
> - adding offset/shift support for cumbersome raw disk images (like
> fixed-size VDI), that don't start at the beginning of the file.
> 
> Required changes?
> IMO straightforward way is just adding another option (below is an
> example), global variable (e.g. shift) and fixing sseek() code and
> R.total_size in get_geometry() to take it into account.
> 
>     -t# [or --offset #]  ignore the number of bytes at the beginning

Isn't this something you can just use a loopback device for?

  losetup -f -o $offset $image

Thanks,
Forest
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