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erebus
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Location: United Kingdom
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 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: Mounting a partition not in the partition table |
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Hi ya,
Does any one out there know if this is possible? I mean can I specifiy a portition of the hard drive giving the start and end cylinders and heads.. and then mount as if it was an actual partition of the hard drive.
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Andrew |
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compu-tom
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Location: Berlin, Germany
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it helps, but I think you can dd a portion of the hd into a file and then mount this via loop-back, e.g.,
| Code: | | dd if=/dev/hda of=imagefile bs=1k count=100 skip=23 |
would copy 100KB from hda starting at an offset of 23KB and then
| Code: | mkdir /mnt/image
mount -o loop imagefile /mnt/image |
mounts the imagefile.
I hope this helps. 
See man dd for details on dd. |
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