How2 Mount Ntfs Partition That Is Part Of A Full HD Image File

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I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re-do the extraction (in fact I won’t be able to use the system where I did it for several weeks, so I’d love to be able to mount just the partition from the image I have).

I’ll be doing some digging, but thought I’d inquire here too.

thanks in advance!

2 thoughts on - How2 Mount Ntfs Partition That Is Part Of A Full HD Image File

  • Piece of cake!
    kpartx -a -v /path/to/image/file

    Now you’ll have devices in /dev/mapper corresponding to the partitions in the image. Run “kpartx -d -v /path/to/image/file” when you are done
    (after unmounting any of the partitions, of course).

  • Thanks!

    I had known about kpartx, but it had slipped my mind. (I seem to be of an age where that happens altogether too much.)

    Fred