You may have raw images in your system coming from some bare metal VM, like KVM\/Vmware. You may mount them directly to the host machine without attaching them to a VM. To do so, you need two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both of these, can be derived using a command called fdisk with attribute l as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[root@vps5 vpsextra]# fdisk -l mhdevelopment.img\n\nDisk mhdevelopment.img: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes, 524288000 sectors\nUnits = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\nDisk label type: dos\nDisk identifier: 0x000f1752\n\n Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System\nmhdevelopment.img1 2048 523241471 261619712 83 Linux\nmhdevelopment.img2 523241472 524287999 523264 82 Linux swap \/ Solaris\nYou have new mail in \/var\/spool\/mail\/root\n[root@vps5 vpsextra]#\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nHere, we are trying to mount an old image of mine, called ‘mhdevelopment.img. I would like to mount the partition that is not swap, which is namely ‘mhdevelopment.img2’ here. This partition starts from 2048 and the sector size is 512 bytes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So to mount the partition, you can now use the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((2048 * 512)) mhdevelopment.img \/mnt<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThis will mount the the partition mhdevelopment.img1 to \/mnt. If you want to change the mount destination, you may do this at the end in replace of \/mnt to wherever you want this to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happy shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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