Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:05:58 +0200 | From | Herbert Pötzl <> | Subject | Re: Partitioned loop device.. |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:53:17AM -0400, Josh Litherland wrote: > In article <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> you wrote: > > > so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support to the loop > > driver itself. > > Working with sector images of hard drives? I use Linux for data > recovery jobs and it would be very helpful to me to be able to look at > DOS partitions inside a loopback device. As it is I must chunk it up > into seperate files by hand.
you could also setup more than one loopback device with different offsets into the partitions ...
for my purposes, I use the folowing script (part)
YMMV, Herbert
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losetup /dev/loop/0 $file sfdisk --dump /dev/loop/0 | gawk ' /^\/dev\/loop/ { if ($6+0 > 0) { part=substr($1,13)+0; dev=sprintf("/dev/loop/%d", part); printf "losetup %s -o %d /dev/loop/0\n", dev, $4*512; printf "fsck -p -f %s\n", dev; printf "mkdir -p /mnt/disk/part%d\n", part; printf "mount %s /mnt/disk/part%d\n", dev, part; } } ' | sh
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