Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Apr 8 16:29:27 UTC 2004
Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:42, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>>IIRC, if you used dd to grab the CD's data from a raw device, e.g.
>>"dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/some/file", then "/some/file" will be an ISO
>>image since you grabbed the sector-by-sector layout of the disk. This
>>is handy to make copies of CDs. I've done it many times.
>
>
> Ok look I appoligise for taking over this thread I am leaving it alone
> after this response.
>
> Hi Rick you are quite right about the CDs but if you where paying
> attention :~> you would see that I created this image from a Hard drive
> connected via a USB port not a cd. I know that with CDs it works, and
> what has got Andy interested is that fact that its not supposed to be
> possible to mount an image of a hdd as an iso9660.
What does "mount" say the filesystem is? If the hdd partition is
iso9660 (and it certainly can be), it'll mount.
> Anyway thanks for your 2c. in truth I was just trying to help Guolin
> and it seems we are taking over his thread and not solving his problem.
> If need be I will start a new thread for this discussion,
Yeah, I'll butt out now.
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