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Subject: [ts-7000] Reading filesystem data from SD image
From: "Rod Nussbaumer" <>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:14:31 -0000
>From a different thread, it was said regarding SD flash memories:

>>
>> You can re-image the SD card by downloading the latest filesystem image from
Technologic and with a reader use the 'dd' command to rewrite it.
>>

>You may also want to take an image of the card as-is, before you write >the new
>image, if you want to poke around to see what happened.
>
>regards, ........ Charlie


So this moves me to ask something which I've wondered about for a while. I have 
the image for a TS7350 which was shipped on the flash card by TS. I copied the 
image to a local disk file as a backup. I would like to be able to extract the 
various partitions out of the image, possibly modify them, and re-create a 
modified image. Since this image contains a bootloader (I think, or does it?), 
plus at least a partition table, as well as the actual filesystem partitions 
and data, how can I get at the individual pieces as I would like to do. I 
assumed that the first 'n' 512-byte blocks would be bootloader and partition 
table, after which I could try to mount at least the first partition on a loop 
device. I tried iteratively chopping off the first 512 byte blocks and mounting 
what was left over, but this always failed (I forget the exact error message, 
but I seem to recall that it implied that the filesystem was 
invalid/corrupt/unrecognized).

Is there a way to do what I want, without having some kind of map of the image 
file?

Thanks.

   ---   rod.




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