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 1JFwSq-0004tA-0h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:01:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4B89E0730; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257B3E0569 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so44171ika.2 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Tng3flK2qcC0l24Hev7mId7AmGDPJucFXWWzb4HrDEg=; b=g7ICDGG7OYhF45qkVq2ZYy4xPTjS43L1OKCZXVHnA4WU6X4a1ulD3SJyZhHNIwBjOvwacF+4OB07rtYFYszgLJkFjCZn+LguTBJ1b3E+wrjAhC92E+tTEpZUlikYBPqtHoR3sKRoZH3IyvqdIdDpQT29LV76AzeDiyHKJDYufTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=JhJHgvx3LzxgBCkX/zfKVOd/cxRWJd9WXu/RU2ZvfIW7rkFqeS2g5dBM2WWGMGOKafcCxNE6dqBjB2nRFz/6QokVS1AW9GbRcbxp3iXVYZnUjfYvhpCIPRyaTPQpvSQoIR1R7YJ2AJ7Y9y4hF0iyH8yGx34hftgPYncDYHsQgBU= Received: by 10.78.136.9 with SMTP id j9mr5302495hud.46.1200682843130; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.225.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k10sm7053247nfh.17.2008.01.18.11.00.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:42 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:54:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801181255.21673.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200801182001.18963.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200801181329.34676.mcbrides9@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200801181329.34676.mcbrides9@comcast.net> 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: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801182054.58222.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 92d76732-f57c-43f0-8943-02cd535040c0 X-Archives-Hash: 4bebeb80472c460d975b5f981e408f61 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? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list