[SOLVED] *.img downloaded, but how can i mount it on my desktop?

[fireon]

Hello all,

tested here a lot of with the new Server. So the question what we are all asking ourselves here is: "How we can mount such imagefile (IMG). Geh goal is a GUI (Ubuntu/KDE NEON 20.04) that we can mount it with single click. But the first challenge is to mount this image with the cmd.

sudo mount drive-scsi0.img /mnt/test
mount: /mnt/test: Falscher Dateisystemtyp, ungültige Optionen, der Superblock von /dev/loop2 ist beschädigt, fehlende Kodierungsseite oder ein anderer Fehler.

file drive-scsi0.img
drive-scsi0.img: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 1, 41943039 sectors, extended partition table (last)

So what we need to mount it on Linux CMD?

Very thanks

 

[dcsapak]

HI,

since the .img file contains the complete vm disk (incl partition table, etc.) you have to either use a tool that can handle this such as gnome-disk-image-mounter (in debian this is in the package gnome-disk-utility)
or you use something like losetup/partx/kpartx to get the partitions as loopdevices or you check (e.g. with fdisk) where the partition begins manually and add an offset to mount

edit:
Just a general warning: you should NEVER mount an unknown and possibly bad filesystem on a machine that contains important info/has access to an important network
a filesystem prepared by an attacker can abuse kernel fs bugs (which are not seen as security issues by the kernel)

i'd suggest to only mount unknown filesystems in a vm

 

[fireon]

Really!! With gnome-disk-utility it works perfectly. Why aren't there such tools in QT? (KDE).... grrr...

Very Thanks