From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Can I abuse md like this? Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:35:21 -0500 Message-ID: <458DF579.1090603@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux Raid List List-Id: linux-raid.ids I hope I can use the md code to solve a problem, although in a way probably not envisioned by the author(s). I have a disk image, a physical dump of every sector from start to finish, including the partition table. What I hope I can do is to create a one drive RAID-1 partitionable array, and then access it with fdisk or similar. These partitions are not "nice" types such as FAT, VFAT, ext2, etc, this is an odd disk, and I "saved it" by saving everything. Now I'd like to start dismembering the information and putting it into useful pieces. I even dare to hope that I could get the original software running on a virtual machine at some point. The other alternative is to loopback mount it, I'm somewhat reluctant to do that if I can avoid it. Yes, the partition table is standard in format if not in content. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979