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 :-|

Thanks a lot for help.

Pat
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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

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On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:03 PM, pat <pat@xvalheru.org> 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 :-|
>
> Thanks a lot for help.
>
> Pat
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>
>

I don't have time to test, but try something like this:

(from: http://lwn.net/Articles/110426/)

losetup /dev/loop0 file.iso
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/loop0
mount /dev/loop0p2 /mnt/temp (for p2 replace with other partition,
check ls /sys/block/loop0/dev)
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