Susan Chan Lee wrote: > > Having some problems mounting a filesystem which I imaged using dd for > forensic testing. The below is what I am doing with little success: > > 1. dd the partition in question by - dd if=/dev/hda1 > of=/forensics/images/hda1.dd > 2. create a mount point - mkdir /mnt/boot > 3. mounting the dd'ed fs with no success (tried a few variations): > > # mount -o ro,loop,nodev,noexec forensics/images/hda1.dd mnt/boot > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, > or too many mounted file systems > > # mount -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1 forensics/images/hda1.dd /mnt/boot > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, > or too many mounted file systems > > As you can see I keep getting this wrong fs type error on both loop0 and > loop1. Some wild guesses : 1. your kernel does not include support for the imaged filesystem, 2. you might try to specify -t <filesysteme-type>, 3. copy your file to a partition and run fsck / reiserfsck / ..., 4. check the number of file systems already mounted. -- Fred Mobach - fredat_private - postmasterat_private Systemhouse Mobach bv - The Netherlands - since 1976 website : http://fred.mobach.nl Safe Harbour for encumbered Free and Open Source software and links: http://apache.dataloss.nl/~fred/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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