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

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:40:47AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> 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

Use the "-o <offset>" option of losetup to position to the start of the
partitions of interest.


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