[plug] mounting ext3 partition image

[W.Kenworthy]

Keep in mind you can run 'file' against the image file, or vi -b
imagefile to see inside it (thogh at those sizez, you might only want to
'head' the first couple of Mb) - you can often work out what state the
file is in (i.e., compressed) from this.  If really desparate, 'strings'
it and see if any test is visible.

BillK


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 11:26 +0800, tim.bowden at westnet.com.au wrote:
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] mounting ext3 partition image
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:58 +0800
> 
> >tim.bowden at westnet.com.au wrote:
> >>>> I'm having a little trouble mounting an image of an ext3
> >patition=2E=20=
> >
> >>>I
> >>>> created it on my laptop, saving it on my desktop using:
> >>>> dd conv=3Dsync,noerror bs=3D64k if=3D/dev/sda2 |gzip |nc
> >192=2E168=2E2=
> >>11=2E101
> >>>> 1010
> >
> >The image is still compressed on the target.
> 
> No, but I think you might be on to something.  My image file size is
> way too big (should have checked first: abt 76Gb v partion size of
> 42Gb), and e2fsk reported compression flag errors with the file
> system (no idea if it's related though).  I'll try creating the image
> again without any compression and see what happens.  Good thing I've
> got plenty of disk space.
> 
> Tim
> 
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