Re: [gentoo-user] mounting disk image

[Andrey Falko]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2008, pat wrote:
>  > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:16:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>  >
>  > > On Sunday 06 April 2008, pat wrote:
>  > > > Hello,
>  > > >
>  > > > I have a question about mounting disk image as the disk. I have
>  > > > disk image which was created using:
>  > > > dd if=/dev/sda of=./file.iso
>  > > > and the sda contained two partitions sda1 and sda2. I know, that
>  > > > if I have only image of the sda1 I can mount it using loop device
>  > > > like #losetup /dev/loop0 file.iso
>  > > > #mount -t ... /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp
>  > > >
>  > > > But, how to do it if the file structure is: sda -> sda1, sda2? I
>  > > > need to get data from sda1 and sda2 :-|
>  > >
>  > > losetup -o <offset_value> /dev/loop<something>
>  > >
>  > > see man losetup
>  >
>
> > Thanks. How to count the offset? And where can I get the partitions
>  > offsets?
>
>  Is the original disk still intact? Then fdisk would tell you the offset
>
>
>
I'm pretty sure you can fdisk -l test.iso....maybe not, but worth a
try if you don't have the original disk :).
>
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