Impossible to mount raw image?

[exton]

Before I could mount my raw images created with SUSE Studio with the command mount -oloop,offset=32256 openSUSE.raw /mnt/rawimage. Now I get this error message: "You must specify the filesystem type". What is wrong? I have tried with all known (to me) Linux filesystems, ie ext2, ext3, ext4 etc. Which filesystem is it?

[Balazs Kutil-2]

> Before I could mount my raw images created with SUSE Studio with the
> command /mount -oloop,offset=32256 openSUSE.raw /mnt/rawimage/. Now I
> get this error message: "You must specify the filesystem type". What is
> wrong? I have tried with all known (to me) Linux filesystems, ie ext2,
> ext3, ext4 etc. Which filesystem is it?

Hi,

It still is ext3/ext4. It could be that the offset changed. You can try
(as root):

1. losetup -sf openSUSE.raw. This will print out a device name (e.g.
/dev/loop0

2. kpartx -a /dev/loop0

3. mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt

Reverse process:

1. umount /mnt

2. kpartx -d /dev/loop0

3. losetup -d /dev/loop0

Please let me know if this worked for you or if you need any help.

Cheers
*Balazs

[exton]

Hi Balazs,

It's working perfectly. Thanks a lot!