From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFwkz-0006nt-HC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:20:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08810E0845; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE4FE082D for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.19]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id efYw1Y00L0QkzPw0A0Gk00; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:19:27 +0000 Received: from spinner ([76.116.4.141]) by OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ejKS1Y00K32Z8is8N00000; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:19:27 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=2MbSvoJCaBcA:10 a=Xc2uWaGE-PhfffT-_04A:9 a=RREr4OJyXIM3XTFJdwpxJ9o49OcA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-LINUX To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:19:21 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801181255.21673.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200801181329.34676.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200801182054.58222.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801182054.58222.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801181419.21867.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 4e8a517b-00be-46d0-8ed5-f6989424bedd X-Archives-Hash: 4ffbc086b34ab4e3e32df759f891c4f4 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. =2D-=20 =46rom the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list