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don quixada
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 Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:35 pm Post subject: loop mounting a single partition on imaged drive [SOLVED] |
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Hi, I followed the instructions here for creating an image of an NTFS partitioned hard-drive. Namely:
| Code: | # dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > ./backup.img.gz
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I kept the bs=64K because they seemed to recommend it.
I also saved the "extra info" as they recommended it:
| Code: | # fdisk -l /dev/sdi > backup_fdisk.info
Disk /dev/sdi: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5a660aa0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdi1 2048 29362175 14680064 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sdi2 * 29362176 29566975 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdi3 29566976 625139711 297786368 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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Now I want to mount the third partition starting on block 29566976 but when I follow the instructions according to here I get the following error message:
| Code: | # losetup /dev/loop0 backup.img.gz -o $((29566976 * 512))
losetup: backup.img.gz: Warning: file does not fit into a 512-byte sector; the end of the file will be ignored.
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I'm not sure what to do about this. Is it because the image is compressed?
If I run fdisk -lu on the image file itself I get:
| Code: | fdisk -lu backup.img.gz
Disk backup.img.gz: 232.2 GiB, 249369201152 bytes, 487049221 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I'm not sure if that is useful. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
dq
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SDNick484
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never tried this method before, but it looks interesting. If I had to guess your issue, the problem may be related to the fact that your backup is compressed (gzip -c) and the offset your pointing (-o 29566976) is not. If you have the space, perhaps try to decompress the image via gunzip and use the same losetup command on the decompressed file (i.e. backup.gz). |
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don quixada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Yes, that was it. It took forever to gunzip it but once I did I was able to mount no problem! Incidentally, I also tried 'partimage' on one partition of the hard drive but I haven't figured-out how to mount it either...
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