Re: mounting partitions on loopback fs ?

[Richard B. Johnson]

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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