[plug] mounting ext3 partition image

[tim.bowden at westnet.com.au]

---- Original Message ----
From: billk at iinet.net.au
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] mounting ext3 partition image
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:34:01 +0800

>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
>
Tried again without compression, and when 11Gb had been read I had a
121Gb image file.  Strange.  According to file, it was an ext3 file. 
Trying again without conv=sync,noerrors.

Tim

>
>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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