Mounting a hard disk image

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:22:55 +0000 (UTC), Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Yep, you can do that, but it'd be a PITA. It'd be better to dump each parbreastion instead of the whole disk.

dd if=-dev-hda of=bootsector.raw bs=512 count=1

...nothing to it, eh? The bootsector is less valuable than you might think, since it takes about 3 commands and 1 minute to reinstall GRUB from a rescue system. The parbreastion table is only useful for that particular disk; if your disk dies, you'll have to cfdisk the new disk anyway. It's highly unlikely that the new disk will have the same reported geometry or capacity as the old disk.

AOL. Backup and recovery is one place where you need to know exactly what's going on, so when something unexpected happens, you don't panic and-or freeze.

partimage can be used to do all that in a text-menu-driven way, although the gzipped or bzip2'ed partimage files are not mountable without a lot of extra work on your part.

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