Hi Everyone, This is my first email to the support mailing list - I've been being more active on the forums, but am new to the mailing list. I ran into an issue and it was recommended to me that I give it a shot asking for advice here. The issue I am having is described in http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/408967-mounting-ntfs-drive-image-off... In a nutshell, I have an image of an NTFS drive created with dd_rescue. The image was of the entire device, not just a partition. I am trying to mount this under Suse 11.1 using a loopback device and specifying the offset value. However, not matter what I try, I can not seem to make this work. When I actually go to mount it the mount command hangs interminably, or results in an error: Callandor:~ # Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file? (More info with output from the way I am creating the loop device and the offset can be found in the above forum post if you would like to see the specifics.) This is a curious matter for me, and I would like to get it resolved and would much appreciate any suggestions anyone may have. Thank you for your time. Cheers, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org