SUMMARY: How does one fsck a dd image of a filesystem? losetup
"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]>
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Thanx to Cody Collier and Kevin "Korbinator" Korb. Both pointed me towards "losetup" which was just a matter of running: # losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/myimage.dd # e2fsck -y -v /dev/loop0 Kevin also pointed out that since my filesystem was already mounted read-only, I could run fsck on the loopback device in use as well. I actually did so using "e2fsck -n -v" options to "look at what was wrong" before umounting and using losetup proper. It's funny. I've always taken note of losetup, but never knew what it was used for. Now I know. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. mailto:[email protected] http://thebs.org _______________________________________________ LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org submissions: LinuxManagers-35TzE1X9F6582KRnZfj+bdi2O/[email protected] subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers