[CentOS] how2 mount ntfs partition that is part of a full HD image file

[Robert Nichols]

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).

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