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tuxflo

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Registered: 2015-07-29

Posts: 6

Mount split image created with dd

Hey guys!

I created a backup of my entire disk using dd with the parameters to split the image because the external drive is FAT32 (from the "Disk cloning" wiki page):

dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c | split -a3 -b2G - /path/to/backup.img.gz

Now I want to copy some of the files out of the image back to my new system.

Is there a way to mount a splitted image without cat-ing it first to a huge file? I searched for "mount splitted image" and found some posts like https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog … ype-images using "afflib" is it possible to mount the *.gz files using that tool?

Greetings,
Flo