[TriLUG] mounting (looking at) dd image of whole disk

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I have a dd image of a disk with 4 partitions (partition 1 
vfat; 2 swap; 3 ext3; 4 ext3). Normally you can mount 
partition images with -o loop, but you have to specify the 
fstype (-t vfat or in the case of a cdrom -t iso9660). Since 
you have to specify the fstype, I assume that you can only 
mount a dd image if it's all one fstype. I don't know how to 
mount a whole disk containing several partitions. Is there a 
way of mounting the image so it looks like a disk, so I can 
look at the partition table and delete/add partitions, do 
mke2fs etc?

Thanks Joe

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