Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

[Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>]

On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file
> > > system* image.
> > >
> > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what
> > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot
> > > records.
> > >
> > > alan
> >
> > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times
> > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue?
> >
> > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly
> > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I
> > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that
> > different? Just curious.
>
> Do you have partitions on that memory stick?
>

Yes.


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