Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

Nerius Landys nlandys at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 00:50:45 UTC 2009


> Your dump is just a regular file sitting on a hard drive with a file
> system that's already mounted.  If you created an on-disk ISO image of
> that file, you'd have to mount the file system of that ISO image to read
> the file.  If you burned the ISO image to a CD, you'd mount the CD's
> file system to read it.  Either way, the file remains just a file, and
> is read using restore(8).
>
> I'll offer a guess that you're confusing things with tar(1) (which is
> often used for backups) and the recent changes.  From the manpage:
>
>    This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, jar, ar,
>    and ISO 9660 cdrom images and can create tar, pax, cpio, ar, and
>    shar archives.
>
> The above means you can now do nifty things like 'tar xvf mybackup.iso',
> and if you've configured a pre-processor for less(1), even niftier
> things like:
>
>    less backup.tar.gz
>    less backup.zip
>    less backup.iso
>
> It's also possible you might be thinking of file system snapshots (which
> can be mounted).  Check the Handbook for details.
>

All I really want to do is take my dump file and see the "files"
inside it, and do things with those files such as copy or md5sum (not
edit).  And I don't even know which tool do use to accomplish that.
For example, if I took a dump 0 of /usr (which I did), I would like to
see the "file" /usr/home/nlandys/.zshrc inside the dump, and then
actually see (read) this file and/or copy it over scp or to another
filesystem.


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