maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - [Depreciated] BackupMenu - Backup & restore OS images(+ other features)

Rob1n	2010-07-23 , 20:29
Posts: 3,617 \| Thanked: 2,412 times \| Joined on Nov 2009 @ Cambridge, UK	#41

Originally Posted by AlMehdi

If i want to extract the rootfs on my Ubuntu machine. How do i do? I understand it is DD. But whatever i try don't work.

I thought it would be something like this.. but it wasn't
Code:
dd if=/path/to/file.img of=/to/folder/

You can't just use dd straight from the image, otherwise you end up with just a smaller chunk of the image. You'll need to mount the image as a filesystem. Assuming you've got all the necessary kernel modules built, you should be able to do:

Code:

mount -t ubifs -o loop /path/to/file/img /to/folder

Quote & Reply |

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Rob1n For This Useful Post:
AlMehdi, RobbieThe1st, Tiboric