From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Bai Shuwei <baishuwei@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] diskimage HOWTO
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:37:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9394D7.6070603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f284c33d0908250032o1dbc9945ya466c121a864d23d@mail.gmail.com>
Mulyadi Santosa schrieb:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Kevin Wolf<kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
>> You shouldn't have removed half of my answer. Using kpartx is so much
>> easier than fiddling around with offsets.
>
> Sorry for that Kevin. I was focusing on losetup, because that's the
> one I am familiar of. Could you kindly demonstrate how to use kpartx
> in this case? Thanks in advance...
You would use "kpartx -a test.img" which creates devices like
/dev/mapper/loop0p1 for each partition. You can work with it like you
would do with losetup and afterwards remove it with "kpartx -d test.img".
But actually Laurent's solution doesn't look too bad either. Didn't know
about it until now.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 5:39 [Buildroot] diskimage HOWTO Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24 5:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24 7:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-24 8:30 ` [Buildroot] " Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24 8:30 ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24 17:04 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25 3:55 ` [Buildroot] " Bai Shuwei
2009-08-25 3:55 ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-25 5:03 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25 7:06 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-25 7:32 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25 7:37 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2009-08-25 7:41 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25 8:48 ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-25 7:28 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-08-24 18:13 ` [Buildroot] " Steve Calfee
2009-08-24 18:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Steve Calfee
2009-09-11 9:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
2009-09-11 11:27 ` [Buildroot] " Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-11 11:38 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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