From: Tim <tim-qemu@sentinelchicken.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Mounting windows partition
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 13:25:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040508202540.GA1053@sentinelchicken.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084046607.1478.2.camel@debian>
Linux does not have good support for loopback partition table reading.
You can mount a file as a partition, but not convince the kernel to read
a partition table off of a file.
There was a patch to the loopback driver available for 2.4.x, but I
don't think it is being maintained. I think some guys from NASA wrote
it, and they made it very hard to use on any distro other than redhate.
It also required a patch to losetup, that didn't work for me, so it was
buggy even when I used it. (If anyone has info on an
improved/maintained patch for this, I would love to know. It would be
very nice to have this for the forensics work that I do.)
The only other work around that I know of, is to run losetup with the -o
option. Basically, skip over the first track of the "disk" until you
reach the parition's superblock/header. You need to know the exact
offset for this, of course. fdisk -l will probably help you figure that
out.
Once you have your loopback device created, you can mount it like a
partition.
tim
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 10:03:27PM +0200, Lean Fuglsang wrote:
> Hello,
> i created a file - which was emulated as the filesystem for windows98.
> I then made some partitions in the emulated dos, and installed windows.
> My question is, how can I mount this partition in Linux?
> So how do I get a windows_disk1 like the kernel finds in /dev/hda1...?
>
> --
> Lean Fuglsang <lean@omnia.dk>
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-08 20:03 [Qemu-devel] Mounting windows partition Lean Fuglsang
2004-05-08 20:25 ` Tim [this message]
2004-05-09 1:56 ` Michael Torrie
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