[ILUG] loopback partition tables ?

[Dave Neary]

"John P. Looney" wrote:
> 
>  If I have a disk image on disk, can I mount partitions inside that disk
> image, loopback ? I can mount partition images no problems....just
> wondering is there wierd magic I could do to make it work.

I can't help you with the partition table magic (surely that's a quick
enough hack?) but if you can calculate the offset into the file then you
can create /dev/loopN devices with losetup, which has an offset
argument. It's not clear from the manpage whether it's possible to hang
multiple loopback devices off one disk image, though. Thank Tony here
for that answer :)

Dave.

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