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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Mounting a disk clone Post 302467686 by old noob on Saturday 30th of October 2010 06:35:41 PM

10-30-2010

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root@arumator--net:/home/arumator# mount -o loop /media/250189482C661005/recovery_image.img /mnt -t vfat
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I need to mount the image sorry if i wasn't clear. i currently don't have the drive on me if I try mounting the image without the -o loop option it says its not a block device. this is the output from the dmesg | tail
root@arumator--net:/home/arumator# dmesg | tail
[26873.008861] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 10 00
[26873.008864] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26873.014885] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26873.014896] sdb: sdb1
[26873.037861] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26873.037868] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[26873.557114] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[26873.559232] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'WD SmartWare', timestamp 2009/11/13 20:34 (1f10)
[37695.928682] FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
[37695.928687] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev loop0.

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NAME

       dgetlp - simulate ``dget'' behaviour for files hosted at librarian.launchpad.net

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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