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How can I mount a disk image?

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I have a disk image which contains the partition table and a primary partition (i.e. a FAT32 filesystem). Think that as a USB pen image. I want to mount the primary partition to a local directory. I know how to mount a partition image using the loop utils but here I have disk image. My guess is tha…

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myimage.disk

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The kpartx tool makes this easier. It creates loop devices in /dev/mapper for each partition in your image. Then you can mount the loop device that corresponds with your desired partition without having to calculate the offset manually. For example,…

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