I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re-do the extraction (in fact I won't be able to use the system where I did it for several weeks, so I'd love to be able to mount just the partition from the image I have).
I'll be doing some digging, but thought I'd inquire here too.
thanks in advance!
On 10/04/2014 05:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re-do the extraction (in fact I won't be able to use the system where I did it for several weeks, so I'd love to be able to mount just the partition from the image I have).
Piece of cake! kpartx -a -v /path/to/image/file
Now you'll have devices in /dev/mapper corresponding to the partitions in the image. Run "kpartx -d -v /path/to/image/file" when you are done (after unmounting any of the partitions, of course).
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:34:55PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 10/04/2014 05:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re-do the extraction (in fact I won't be able to use the system where I did it for several weeks, so I'd love to be able to mount just the partition from the image I have).
Piece of cake! kpartx -a -v /path/to/image/file
Now you'll have devices in /dev/mapper corresponding to the partitions in the image. Run "kpartx -d -v /path/to/image/file" when you are done (after unmounting any of the partitions, of course).
Thanks!
I had known about kpartx, but it had slipped my mind. (I seem to be of an age where that happens altogether too much.)
Fred
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