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 1JFqrh-0001Ql-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 352FEE09E3; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from venus.eclipse.kcom.com (venus.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.60]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71478E0719 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,216,1199664000"; d="scan'208";a="214444401" Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org ([213.152.39.90]) by venus.eclipse.kcom.com with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2008 13:02:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E846A13799C for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:01 +0000 (GMT) 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 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <20080118090425.GF11901@chateau.d.lf> References: <6155E8C0-9F4B-446D-BE24-EAC2BCEC82D5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20080118090425.GF11901@chateau.d.lf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:01 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: 8a414c1f-663d-4eae-bbdc-359a15a4685d X-Archives-Hash: b203a01c77db2066919980061098e52f On 18 Jan 2008, at 09:04, =E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7 = =E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=81=E0=A4=95=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B2 Ashish Shukla =20 wrote: > ,--[ On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +0000, Stroller wrote: > [...] > >> I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of =20 >> partitions on >> the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. =20 >> I know >> that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso /mnt/cdrom -t =20 >> iso9660 -o >> loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole partition tables? > > How about using your disk image as HD in a VM, and then inspect it =20 > from > VM, hmm... Would that work? I've never used VMs - are their drive images exactly =20= "blocky" as my `dd` command would produce? (`dd if=3D/dev/sda of=3D/mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a =20 portable USB hard-drive). > Or look out for some tools which allow you to play with hard > disk images, e.g. mtools . It looks like mtools is geared towards floppies but will handle a =20 hard-drive fine. However the manual suggests no support for NTFS. (??) Stroller.= -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list