mount-img

Easily mount a .img file on Linux

npm install -g mount-img

Usage

Use it just as you would mount but instead of passing a /dev device pass a disk image file.

mount-img my-image.img mnt

If you want to mount a specific partition from the image you can use the -p parameter.

# mount partition 5
mount-mig my-image.img mnt -p 5

Per default it just mounts the first one.

Creating image files

To create raw image files you can use fallocate

# make a ~1gb image
fallocate my-image.img -l 1000000000

Then using fdisk you can make a partition table

# to simply make a single partition, follow this
fdisk my-image.img
n<enter>
<enter>
<enter>
<enter>
w<enter>

You can also make more than one partition or make one bootable etc.

Then format the partition using ext4

# note the Start sector
fdisk -l my-image.img
# change 2048 to the Start sector (usually 2048)
mkfs.ext4 -F -E offset=$((2048 * 512)) my-image.img

You can now mount this image using mount-img

mount-img my-image.img mnt

Happy mounting!

License

MIT