[wplug] Looking for a way to work with disk images

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Dec 8 16:57:51 EST 2005


Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:46:05PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>> (i.e. mdconfig creates /dev/md4, which can be accessed as if it were
>> a normal hard drive, such as /dev/ad0 or /dev/da0)
>
> You can mount it as a "loopback" device - but that'll put the image
> into your filesystem:
>
> mount -o loop foo.img /mnt/foo

Unfortunatly, this won't work for me.  I've got multiple partitions on
this image, so I need a way to get fdisk-ish access.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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