Mounting images with multiple partitions

prushik · 07-12-2010, 04:35 PM

Say I have an image of a file system. I made it with dd by copying it off my USB stick. e.g. "sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=./image.ext2"
I can mount said image with the command: "sudo mount -t ext2 -o loop ./image.ext2 /mnt/"
Now, say instead of copying a partition with dd, I copy a whole drive. e.g. "sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=./image.img". sdb had 2 partitions on it. How can I mount those separate partitions without copying that image back onto the USB drive?

jefro · 07-12-2010, 05:39 PM

Not sure I have seen it done but you'd have to first mount the image either in a loop device or as a virtual machine. Then you'd have to mount partition. Actually I know the VM deal works.