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Re: [Xen-users] img file to physical disk

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] img file to physical disk
From: Bas Mevissen <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:22:25 +0200
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MS wrote:

just stop the domu, mount the image and the disk
# mount -o loop /foo/bar/myimage /mnt/old

If the image is a virtual disk, you need to skip to the first sector of
the partition:

losetup /dev/loop0 /foo/bar/myimage
sfdisk -l /dev/loop0 # get the start sector of the partition.

The first partition on the first sector of the second track. With 63
sectors per track, the offset is 63 * 512 = 32256.

# example:
losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0
# now mount the first partition of the virtual disk
mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/old

# mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/new

and copy all the files
# cd /mnt/old
# tar c * | tar x -C /mnt/new


Be carefull with "tar <options> *" as it skips hidden files in the root
directory. Better is to use "tar <options> ."

Bas.


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