Re: useless image of hdd: how to make it useful?

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Filipau, Ihar wrote:

> Hello All!
> 
> 	[ please CC me - I'm not subscribed to the list. ]
> 
> 	This question was in my mind for couple of years.
> 	But after all I decided to ask it. (Better later - than never ;-))
> 
> 	Little prehistory: I had on my old home PC two hard drives - hda &
> hdc.
> 		hda was big and new, while hdc was old, small and sure it
> contained 
> 		a lot of old useful stuff. So I decided to upgrade my very
> valuable hdc.
> 		And sure, as simple novice in hdd upgrades, I've made smth
> like:
> 			# dd if=/dev/hdc of=/root/hdc_img
> 		And right after upgrade - I got small rebate in exchange for
> my old hdd - 
> 		I understood my problem.
> 
> 	I do not know the way to mount partition table!
> 	it's possible with loop device to mount partition - but how to mount
> whole 
> 	hdd (with its own partition table) to have access to single
> partition inside???

I believe that you can do it with a network block device, at least in
theory. I lack the inclination to try it, but I'd love to hear that this
suggestion was useful.

You can probably do it with loopback mount and offset, but if I had the
problem I'd try NBD just to see if you really can do it!

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bill davidsen <[e-mail]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.