mounting a dd'ed device

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/11/12 Matt Erasmus <mailinglistmatt at gmail.com>:
> Howdy
>
> You can run the following:
>
> ? ? mount -o ro,loop,offset=XXXX -t auto image-sda /media/image
>
> The command is from this blog post [1] which I found very
> useful...hope it helps.
>
> [1] http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6991

That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

A copy of that is going straight into my wiki for next time I need it.

Robin

> 2009/11/12 Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>:
> > If in linux I use dd to create a file from a whole device, say
> > ?dd if=/dev/sdb of=sd_card.dump
> >
> > then I want to mount a partition that is on that dump, how can I do it?
> >
> > I know that if I dd'ed a single partition I could mount it as loopback
> > but having the whole disk as a file I don't know how to reference a
> > single partition in that file.
>
> --
> Matt