mounting a dd'ed device

[mailinglistmatt at gmail.com (Matt Erasmus)]

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

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