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On 18 Jan 2008, at 09:04, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla |
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> ,--[ On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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> [...] |
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>> I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of |
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>> partitions on |
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>> the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. |
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>> I know |
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>> that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso /mnt/cdrom -t |
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>> iso9660 -o |
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>> loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole partition tables? |
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> How about using your disk image as HD in a VM, and then inspect it |
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> from |
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> VM, hmm... |
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Would that work? I've never used VMs - are their drive images exactly |
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"blocky" as my `dd` command would produce? |
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(`dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a |
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portable USB hard-drive). |
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> Or look out for some tools which allow you to play with hard |
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> disk images, e.g. mtools . |
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It looks like mtools is geared towards floppies but will handle a |
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hard-drive fine. However the manual <http://mtools.linux.lu/ |
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mtools.html> suggests no support for NTFS. (??) |
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Stroller.-- |
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