I have several dd images from a single drive. One of them is the swap. I mounted all of the images in Ubuntu just fine except for the image of the swap. This is how the dd images break down: hda8 is /, hda1 is /boot, hda6 is /home, hda5 is /usr, hda7 is /var, and hda9 is swap.
The command I used was: sudo mount -o loop,ro hda1.dd /mnt/Linux
I mounted each image in the order listed above so that it all appears as a single drive.
When I try to mount the swap image it fails with the error: dev/loop5 looks like swap space – not mounted. You must specify the file system type.
Any suggestions?
Best Answer
Swap space does not contain a filesystem, therefore it is not mounted. Mounting a filesystem means making visible the file and directory structure so that you can navigate and manipulate files. But swap space does not contain files, its data is organized more like pages in memory, in other words raw data that the operating system/ memory management system knows about but the "mount" command does not.