Mount dd image with multiple partitions

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I have created an image of a disk using dd using the command dd if=/dev/sdb of=/jobs/image.dd. The SATA drive /dev/sdb has 3 partitions on it (one NTFS, two FAT32).

How do I mount the complete image with all its partitions in one go? I actually want to script this using Python but knowing how to do it is obviously the first step!

Thanks in advance

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Use kpartx (from multipath-tools):

use losetup to get a /dev/loop? device, then use kpartx on it to create dev mappings for the partitions in the image file.

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how about

http://michi-bs.blogspot.com/2008/06/hdd-or-partition-backup-with-dd.html

# dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c | split -b 2000m - /mnt/hdc1/backup.img.gz.

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You should be able to mount this as a loop device with a command similar to this one.
mount /path/to/image /mnt -t ntfs -o loop
or
mount /path/to/image /mnt -t ntfs -o loop=/dev/loop3

This will mount the image at /path/to/image /mnt as a loop device. The first option will create the loop device on an unused loop device. While the 2nd option will force the loop device to be setup on /dev/loop3.

You can get more options from the mount man pages or losetup man pages but losetup shouldn't be required to do this.

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