Mount dd image

Beerbaron · 13 May 2010 at 14:42

How do i mount a dd image using ubuntu?

Thanks.

tntcoder · 13 May 2010 at 15:03

First make sure the loop module is loaded:

lsmod | grep loop

If it's not, then: modprobe loop

Now you really need to know what filesystem the image uses, I will take a guess that its iso9660.

So try in a terminal:

mount -o loop theddimage.dd /home/Beerbaron/mount/here

If that doesn't work you will need to specify the file system (iso9660, ntfs, ext3 etc) the image uses:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop theddimage.dd /home/Beerbaron/mount/here

Hope that's some help

Beerbaron · 13 May 2010 at 15:12

Its always the way with me posting in this section of the forum, as soon as i post i manage to get something to work

I manage to mount it using this:

sudo mount -o loop, /home/beerbaron/Desktop/image /home/beerbaron/Documents

The dd image 'image' has no file extension for some reason

Beerbaron · 13 May 2010 at 15:15

can i only mount it within a folder or can i mount it as an actual drive?

Dj_Jestar · 13 May 2010 at 15:34

There's no such thing as a "Drive" in linux. Everything is a "folder".

Beerbaron · 13 May 2010 at 15:44

Good point

I was just making sure I was mounting it in the correct place.

Wicksta · 25 May 2010 at 07:50

You can mount it wherever you want, although I'd say /mnt/whatever or /media/whatever would be preferable. /home/beerbaron/Documents seems a bit of a strange place unless the image is of your documents or something?

Beerbaron · 25 May 2010 at 08:10

The image was of a floppy disk for something i was doing for uni