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FallenAngel
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 Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:50 am Post subject: Loopback for whole hard drives images ? |
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| Is there a possibility to use an image file of a whole hard disk (including partition table and some partitions) in a way, so that linux reads its partition table and exports its partitions under /dev for later mounting these partitions ? |
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Genone
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| don't think so. |
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FallenAngel
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| To my knowlegde the problem is getting Linux to read the partition table and export the partitions as devices. Is it be possible to use NBD (network block device). Could I export a file as a NBD and then mount it on the same computer. |
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