SUMMARY: How does one fsck a dd image of a filesystem? losetup

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

Thanx to Cody Collier and Kevin "Korbinator" Korb.  Both pointed me towards "losetup" which was 
just a matter of running:
  # losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/myimage.dd
  # e2fsck -y -v /dev/loop0

Kevin also pointed out that since my filesystem was already mounted read-only, I could run fsck 
on the loopback device in use as well.  I actually did so using "e2fsck -n -v" options to "look at 
what was wrong" before umounting and using losetup proper.

It's funny.  I've always taken note of losetup, but never knew what it was used for.  Now I know.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith, E.I.  mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org  http://thebs.org
_______________________________________________
LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org
submissions: LinuxManagers@linuxmanagers.org
subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers