Comments on: Mounting a hard disk image including partitions using Linux

By: Montare una partizione contenuta in un’immagine disco multipartizione « ultimoistante

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:11:53 +0000

[...] pratica, come dicevo, la soluzione è molto semplice, e l’ho trovata qui. Si tratta, in breve, di trovare l’offset di partenza della partizione (contenuta nel file [...]

By: Miguel Angel Rojas

Miguel Angel Rojas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:26:49 +0000

It works for me, I was died until I rescued my info.
Thanks

By: David Kendall

David Kendall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:56:58 +0000

This worked well for me. This article also applies to loading a vmware disk image that has several partitions.

I used this to mount my vmware disk as a disk image…

sudo vmware-mount -f Frog/Frog.vmdk /mnt/frog/

I could then mount individual partitions in the image like this….

sudo mount -t ntfs -o loop,offset=10487232000B /mnt/frog/flat /mnt/toad/

vmware-mount seems to have issues with partitioned disks. This provided a great way to work around those issues.

By: Juuso Alasuutari

Juuso Alasuutari — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:32:15 +0000

Juuso Alasuutari :
here’s a page I found that explains very clearly where the “wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock” mount error is coming from, and how to deal with it.

Bah! I forgot the URL: http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/mounting-images-using-alternate-superblocks/

By: Juuso Alasuutari

Juuso Alasuutari — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:31:09 +0000

To follow up on comment #8 — here’s a page I found that explains very clearly where the “wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock” mount error is coming from, and how to deal with it.

(Spoiler alert: Yes, it’s all because of an unclean journal. )

By: Algo

Algo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:51:46 +0000

Very useful. Thank you

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:10:10 +0000

All useful information – just a followup. If your ext3 partition has been uncleanly unmounted (or you took a dump from a live system, say running as a VM) then you won’t be able to mount it directly as the journal is unclean. Follow the “dd” instructions above to extract just the partition, then run

“fsck.ext3 hda3.img”

to repair the filesystem before mounting.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:32:36 +0000

Great article!

I would just like to point to a small error :
“.. and Count is 17719695 (9072483840/4) ”

It should be “.. and Count is 17719695 (9072483840/512)” .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:41:59 +0000

Thanks a million. Now I can sleep better.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:51:44 +0000

Makes sense. I made a backup of latptop disk with 1 ntfs partition and 1 dos partition using dd if=/dev/sda and was trying to figure out how to extract the partition. This is what I was looking for. I hope it works.