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Re: [Qemu-devel] Mounting a disk image under Linux


From: Grzegorz Kulewski
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Mounting a disk image under Linux
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:39:35 +0200 (CEST)

Yuo should mount it with offset (because of partition table). The right 
offset was posted several times to this list but I do not remember it. 
When you will find it you should add -o offset=xxxxx to mount command.


Grzegorz Kulewski


On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Benjamin Brown wrote:

> I created a disk image under (host) Linux using dd and fdisked and
> formatted using a (guest)Windows 98 boot disk under QEMU.
> I then tried to mount this under linux to add files to it using:
> 
> mount -o loop /opt/qemu/tempImage /mnt/tempImage
> 
> This failed and asked me for the filesystem type so I specified:
> 
> mount -o loop -t vfat /opt/qemu/tempImage /mnt/tempImage
> 
> This also failed with the error:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
> 
> Any ideas why this happens - this should just a straight fat formatted
> disk image?




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