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Tag: dd
Writing bootable disk images (.iso, .img, etc.) to a USB stick from Windows
Because Windows doesn't have dd, and I want to write the latest Mint LTS release to a USB task, I had to face the unpleasant task of finding a Windows tool to perform what's a basic Unix operation. The good news is that I found one, and it's open source: Win32 Disk Imager. It even has a version ≥ 1, titled: “Holy cow, we made a 1.0 Release”.
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Growing a qcow2 image file
First, convert it to raw:
qemu-img convert system.qcow2 -O raw system.raw
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Increasing (encrypted) disk image size with dd
When you have a raw disk image file, you may need to increase its size at some point. With dd, you can do this:
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Mounting partititions residing inside a disk image
When you've read a disk with dd or ddrescue into an image file, one of the things you want to do is mount the partitions inside it. But, how does one do that? The answer is using losetup, with a bit of knowledge of partition offsets.
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