Mounting a full hard drive image?

[MyndFyre]

Hey --

I need to mount a full hard drive image as if it's an actual hard drive.  Is this possible?

Essentially I direct copied a full hard drive (such as /dev/hda) and want to mount its main /dev/hda1 partition, which is NTFS.

Is it possible?

[Joe]

hm..

get root

cd /
mkdir hd
mount /dev/hda1 /hd

[iago]

Hey --

I need to mount a full hard drive image as if it's an actual hard drive.  Is this possible?

Essentially I direct copied a full hard drive (such as /dev/hda) and want to mount its main /dev/hda1 partition, which is NTFS.

Is it possible?

I don't quite understand you.  If you want to mount /dev/hda1, then what Joe said.

If you have a "dd" (.iso) image, you can mount it like this:
iago@Slayer:~$ sudo mount -o loop /mnt/vmware/iso/BroodWar.iso  /mnt/tmp
iago@Slayer:~$ ls /mnt/tmp
autorun.inf*  bw.ico*  install.exe*  isp/  setup.exe*  smackw32.dll*  support/

If it's ntfs, you might have to specify "-t ntfs" to the mount command.  I don't have an iso of a NTFS drive, so I'm not sure if that works, but I don't see why not. 

[MyndFyre]

I didn't dd /dev/hda1, I dd'd /dev/hda.  I know how to mount /dev/hda1 or individual partitions.  But I copied the entire thing, partition table included.

So, if I did something like:

mkdir /tmp/hd
mount notebook-backup.img /tmp/hd

would it spawn:

/tmp/hd/hda1 (ntfs)
/tmp/hd/hda2 (ext3)
/tmp/hd/hda3 (swap)
/tmp/hd/hda5 (ntfs)
/tmp/hd/hda6 (ntfs)

[Newby]

Hmm. Sounds difficult. =P

[iago]

I didn't dd /dev/hda1, I dd'd /dev/hda.  I know how to mount /dev/hda1 or individual partitions.  But I copied the entire thing, partition table included.

So, if I did something like:

mkdir /tmp/hd
mount notebook-backup.img /tmp/hd

would it spawn:

/tmp/hd/hda1 (ntfs)
/tmp/hd/hda2 (ext3)
/tmp/hd/hda3 (swap)
/tmp/hd/hda5 (ntfs)
/tmp/hd/hda6 (ntfs)

I don't know, but I kinda doubt it. 

I have no clue how to do that.  But there's likely a way.  www.linuxquestions.org might be a good place to ask this one.