From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268564AbTGOPxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268567AbTGOPv3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:51:29 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:21947 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268789AbTGOPvC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:51:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:05:58 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Josh Litherland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partitioned loop device.. Message-ID: <20030715160558.GA22548@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Josh Litherland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> <20030715155317.317B461FDE@sade.emperorlinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715155317.317B461FDE@sade.emperorlinux.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:53:17AM -0400, Josh Litherland wrote: > In article <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> you wrote: > > > so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support to the loop > > driver itself. > > Working with sector images of hard drives? I use Linux for data > recovery jobs and it would be very helpful to me to be able to look at > DOS partitions inside a loopback device. As it is I must chunk it up > into seperate files by hand. you could also setup more than one loopback device with different offsets into the partitions ... for my purposes, I use the folowing script (part) YMMV, Herbert --------------------- losetup /dev/loop/0 $file sfdisk --dump /dev/loop/0 | gawk ' /^\/dev\/loop/ { if ($6+0 > 0) { part=substr($1,13)+0; dev=sprintf("/dev/loop/%d", part); printf "losetup %s -o %d /dev/loop/0\n", dev, $4*512; printf "fsck -p -f %s\n", dev; printf "mkdir -p /mnt/disk/part%d\n", part; printf "mount %s /mnt/disk/part%d\n", dev, part; } } ' | sh > > -- > Josh Litherland (josh@emperorlinux.com) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/