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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 15:09 -0000, Russell Jones wrote:

> > I know, I do that myself. But I save images of each partition separately,
> > not the whole disk. I haven't tried, but I have my doubts that utilities
> > like "fdisk" could work on a disk image :-?
> 
> It works if you set it up as a loopback filesystem, IIRC, i.e.
> # man losetup
> # losetup -f
> /dev/loop0
> # losetup filesystem.img /dev/loop0
> # fdisk /dev/loop0
> # losetup -d

Ah! That's very interesting indeed 8-)

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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