Opening an img file

jpahlen · 02-12-2018, 06:53 PM

Hopefully, this makes sense.

I went to back up a home folder to a USB drive. I'm guessing that rather than saving as a folder, it saw it as a partition and saved it as a .img file.

At first, the USB drive would not even be recognized. Then i was finally able to move it off the USB drive with a disk utility tool.

Now I need to open it to retrieve some files. Not much in the properties to describe, just "x-raw-disk-image" as mime-type.

What tool would I use to unpack it?

Thanks in advance!

JJJCR · 02-12-2018, 08:06 PM

Well, if you tell use what tool did you use to backup your home folder then we might have some idea on how to open it.

You backup using what software?

keefaz · 02-12-2018, 08:07 PM

Maybe you can mount it like

Code:

mkdir -p /mnt/usbdrive
mount -o loop /path/to/file.img /mnt/usbdrive
cd /mnt/usbdrive
ls