Re: [coLinux-users] How to access files in colinux image file

[Qingning H. <qin...@gm...>]

Hi Henry,

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Henry Nestler <hen...@ar...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 21.02.2011 16:54, Qingning Huo wrote:
>> I wonder whether I can access the files from a colinux image file. My
>> old machine died but luckily I've been able to rescue the data files
>> from its hard disk. However, I cannot install colinux on my new
>> machines because colinux does not seem to be able to run on x64 boxes.
>>
>> Now I do not really need to get colinux working again. The important
>> thing is to read my files out of the image file.
>
> Copy the file "home.img" into any running Linux than do the follow
> command as root:
> mount -o loop home.img /mnt
> After this you can copy and edit all files under /mnt.
>

Thanks for your reply. Just realised that they are really normal Linux
ext3 file systems. I used the open source Ext2Read program, which can
access the image files directly on Windows. Problem solved.

Thanks,
Qingning