Re: [G4l-general] mount

[Michael D. S. I. <mi...@ku...>]

On 23 Feb 2009 at 15:04, ton...@le... wrote:

From:           	ton...@le...
To:             	"list, g4l" <g4l...@li...>
Date sent:      	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:04:07 +0000
Subject:        	[G4l-general] mount

> With some image files I can do a 
> 
>     mount -t ext3 -o loop myimage.img /mnt/myimage
> 
> but when I try with a g4l image this does not work.  I think at least
> one reason is because it is compressed with lzop.  Is there any way
> to mount this image so you can view the contents, without writing it
> back to a hard drive?
> 
> 

You are correct that the image is compressed by default, so the mount 
command would not be able to mount the compressed image. I have done 
this, but it required uncompressing the image file first.

lzop -d myimage.img.lzo >myimage.img

Then the uncompressed image file could be mounted as you mentioned. 
Unfortunately, the uncompressed image file would have to use the same 
space as the original partition, so even though the image might be 2GB 
compressed, if it is an image of a 40GB partition, it would need 40GB of 
space. I don't know if there is a method to have it do the uncompression live, 
but I have done the above.



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