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Subject: Re: Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:45, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a
> file that contains a partition table?
> 

Yes, lots of folks.


> When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the
> file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a
> way of getting any other partitions from a file with a partition table.
> 
> Any comments?

Sure, find the starting offset for the filesystem and pass that to mount
via the '-o offset=XXX' flag.


regards,

-fd

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