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Re: mount foo.img problem



On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote:
> I have carefullly followed the instructions in man mount and in the
> Debian Reference manual, for example
>
> mount -o loop -t ext3 debxo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop
>
> or
>
> mount dexo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop -t ext3 -o loop

Either of those commands are correct.

> In both cases the mount command exits with a message:
>
> Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.

Could mean a few things, but it generally means your image file is either 
corrupt or was never ext3 formatted.

> What must I do to be able to mount this image file?

Could you run "file debxo-awesome.ext3.img" can provide the output?
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