mounting a dd'ed device

[iamnowonmai at gmail.com (iamnowonmai)]

I would use mmstat to get the partition boundaries and then dd to carve the
desired partition out of the entire image with skip= and count= to account
for the offset.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 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.
>
> Robin
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