Working with disk images

mounting a full disk

list available deices

$ losetup -f

setup a file as a disk.

$ losetup -P /dev/loop0 ./myimage.img

$ ls -l /dev/loop0*

/dev/loop0 /dev/loop0p1 /dev/loop0p2

mount partition

$ mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/disk

umount partition

$ umount /mnt/disk

delete the mount

$ losetup -d /dev/loop0