Re: mounting partitions on loopback fs ?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:42:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Ville Herva wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:20:22AM +0200, you [Soeren Sonnenburg] wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I dd'ed a whole harddisk into a file and set it up using losetup...
> >
> > when I fdisk /dev/loop0 I can clearly see all the partitions. However I
> > have no idea how I could mount them. Is that possible / what needs to be
> > tweaked to make that possible ?
>

mount -o loop filename /mountpoint

Here is an example:

Script started on Wed Apr 9 11:39:27 2003
# ls -la
total 370560
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 9 11:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Apr 9 11:39 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212 Sep 27 2002 cp-win.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 9 11:39 typescript
-rwxr-x--x 1 root root 379064320 Jan 25 2002 win.raw
# mount -o loop win.raw /mnt
# ls /mnt
autorun.inf cdrom_ip.5 discover read1st.txt setup.exe support
bootdisk cdrom_nt.5 i386 readme.doc setuptxt valueadd
# exit
exit
Script done on Wed Apr 9 11:40:07 2003

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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