Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Tracy Camp <campt@thalvors.miralink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: linux loopback and freebsd disklabels (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006161042180.12859-100000@thalvors.miralink.com>
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For reasons to boring to long to explain I have need of mounting a freebsd disk image (created via the dd wonder) under linux and access a specific partion. Trouble is I can't see clearly how I can get linux to understand about the disklabel when using a loopback device. (I'm just doing something like : 'losetup /dev/loop0 freebsd.img') Now I think I can get around this problem if I pass a offset and length to losetup, the length I can figure out since I know the size of the partition, but I don't know exactly how to calculate the initial offset. Should I just use the first block of the partition (which appears to be 63, but linux says 'bad magic number' when I tried doing this...) Advice appreciated. thanks, Tracy Camp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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