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How can I extract files from a disk image backup (.image file)? [duplicate]
I backed up my old device using dd and am trying to access its contents.
The following has been attempted:
usr@pop-os:~/Backups$ sudo mkdir /mnt/<dir>
mount -o loop <file>.image /mnt/<...
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"Bad magic number in super-block" after a dd of Mobian (Debian) image
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I try to install the Mobian OS on my Pinephone thought the dd’s method as described in the official Debian documentation. Basically, I have to make a dd from an image to a partition ...
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how to copy a HD to another if the CPU is freezing after a few GB?
how to copy a HD to another if the CPU is freezing after a few GB ?
I had to copy w11 of a friend notebook from a 128GB nvme to a 1TB nvme.
I put nvne128gb in a usb adapter and the nvme1TB inside the ...
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How to get name of loop device that contains a LUKS-encrypted logical volume
In Ubuntu, I have mounted a raw disk .img file as a loop device that contains a LUKS encrypted LVM with an Ubuntu install on it.
It is mounted like so: (output is from lsblk -o NAME,PKNAME,KNAME,...
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User space program for assembling Linux MD RAID disk images into a coalesced disk image, without using kernel implementation
I've been handed a set of disk images which apparently are Linux MD RAID, asking if I could "reassemble" them. Using a Linux kernel it's as easy as attaching them into partition scanned ...
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permanent vnconfig OpenBSD?
I can manually mount an image file (containing a valid filesystem) with:
vnconfig vnd0 file.img
mount /dev/vnd0c /mnt/
Question: Where should I put the vnconfig command in OpenBSD?
I updated fstab to ...
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unsquashfs tool to extract files from an image file
Just to be clear: linux tool unsquashfs(1) takes as input the name of a squashfs filesystem image file.
In other words the file we pass to it is a "bit by bit" image of a squashfs filesystem ...
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How to make an image of your Linux Install
I'm looking to physically replace my current linux boot hard drive with a new hard drive, but want to 'copy' the existing boot drive contents onto that new drive.
I assume the best way to do this is ...
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Does GNU Tar have a single option to get absolutely everything about a tree
I'm in a situation where I want the kind of guarantees of getting every bit of data and metadata about a tree of files that might normally require using dump/restore. I need everything uids, gids, ...
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How to create an .img from a LVM Logical Volume
I have some LVM logical volumes in a machine, and I would like to create backup images (.img) stored in another machine.
Most volumes are LVM-Thin, and I cannot resize the volumes before creating the ...
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SDcard Image behaves differently than Original
I created my OS on my Raspberry pi 2 zero W on an SDcard. Now I want to distribute it so I made an Image from the SDCard (using dd). But the two cards behave differently especially at startup. Did ...
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How to boot a writable disk image (created with dd from Debian or another distribution) with GRUB?
I created a multi-boot USB stick to load various ISO files, which can either be live systems or used to install different Linux distributions.
sda
-sda1 1M | BIOS Boot partition to store MBR
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How can I mount this special disk? (.vmdk format, bootable but cound not mount...)
I got a virtual disk from a CyberSecurity vendor, I want to check the files on it.
When I set my virtual machine boot from this disk, it can normally boot.
I want to check the files on it, so I attach ...
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Need to expand rootfs online. Looking for alternatives
I am currently working with NXP's iMX8MP-EVK and I created a custom image using yocto. The image is 6.6GB in size and after flashing this image into eMMC and booting through it, I found the remaining ...
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Resize Disk Image with Protective MBR and GPT table
I've got a disk image that I need shortened slightly (long story - but it deals with variances in flash drive sizes). The partitions are already short enough, but the drive size is not.
Basically, I ...