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Use hard disk image like a regular hard disk on Linux

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Mar 15, 2026831 views
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If you have a hard disk image (including partition table, multiple partitions,...), is it possible to let Linux treat it as a regular hard disk? By "regular hard disk" I mean I would like to have the image show up as, for instance, /dev/hdx and its partitions as /dev/hdx1,... (I know I can mount on…

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will generate multiple device files from the partitions within the file which you can then loopmount to get at the contents.

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