open image file

[Zoltan Gyarmati]

On 02/03/2013 03:12 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:03 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com 
> <mailto:horserivers at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     hi:
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>       Is there mothod to look into a image file ?
>       How can I know its filesystem?
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>       I have mounted my fd0 to /mnt with -t tmpfs ,but I find
>       nothing under /mnt.How can I touch the files in image?
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> I think you need to mount it as loopback device
> http://www.andremiller.net/content/mounting-hard-disk-image-including-partitions-using-linux 
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>     thanks!
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Hi,

in case of image with multiple partitions, easier to use kpartx, then 
get the offsets with parted:
http://ppadala.net/blog/2010/09/kpartx-to-mount-vm-disk-images/

of course with image with one partition, it doesn't matter

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