[Gllug] Raw Partitions

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:03:08PM +0000, Christian Smith wrote:
> man losetup

Out of interest, have you ever managed to get Linux to read a partition
table from a loopback device?

Say I do this:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/hda.img

Can I somehow use the loopback device to get access to a partition that
was on hda without manually reading the partition table, dd'ing the
partition to a new file and mounting that loopback?

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