Difference between revisions of "Disk mounting"
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− | == | + | == fdisk == |
− | + | This will list all the disks that Linux sees, including any hot swapped drives that may have just been plugged in: | |
<pre> | <pre> | ||
fdisk -l | fdisk -l | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | == mount individual partitions in a whole disk image == | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you have a while disk image and you want to mount partitions inside that image then use `losetup` to create a loopback device for the image. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For example, if you copied an entire disk using `[[Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks|dd]]` like this: | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | dd if=/dev/sda of=disk.img bs=32768 | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can later create a loopback device for it and see its partitions with `fdisk` and mount those partitions individually with `mount`. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img | ||
+ | fdisk -l /dev/loop0 | ||
</pre> | </pre> |
Revision as of 15:58, 12 February 2009
fdisk
This will list all the disks that Linux sees, including any hot swapped drives that may have just been plugged in:
fdisk -l
mount individual partitions in a whole disk image
If you have a while disk image and you want to mount partitions inside that image then use `losetup` to create a loopback device for the image.
For example, if you copied an entire disk using `dd` like this:
dd if=/dev/sda of=disk.img bs=32768
You can later create a loopback device for it and see its partitions with `fdisk` and mount those partitions individually with `mount`.
losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img fdisk -l /dev/loop0