2005-01-22 01:46:36

by Dan Stromberg

Subject: Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?

Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a
file that contains a partition table?

When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the
file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a
way of getting any other partitions from a file with a partition table.

Any comments?

Thanks!

2005-01-22 04:45:13

by kernel

Subject: Re: Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:45, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a
> file that contains a partition table?
>

Yes, lots of folks.


> When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the
> file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a
> way of getting any other partitions from a file with a partition table.
>
> Any comments?

Sure, find the starting offset for the filesystem and pass that to mount
via the '-o offset=XXX' flag.


regards,

-fd

http://www.farmerdude.com

2005-01-24 14:56:22

by Pádraig Brady

Subject: Re: Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a
> file that contains a partition table?
>
> When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the
> file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a
> way of getting any other partitions from a file with a partition table.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-01/msg00077.html

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