How to mount Rasberry-PI filesystem image

Once you downloaded a Raspberry PI *.img file you may have a reason to look inside the image. Here is a shot config on how you do it:

First get your image file:

# ls -lh
total 1.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9G Apr 24 14:35 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img

Next, check the filesystem table with fdisk:

# fdisk -l 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img 

Disk 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img: 1939 MB, 1939865600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 235 cylinders, total 3788800 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00014d34

                         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img1            8192      122879       57344    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img2          122880     3788799     1832960   83  Linux



The important note to take from the above output is:

  • Sector size: 512
  • start block: img1: 8192 and img2: 122880

Now create a directory mount point for both images:

# mkdir img1 img2

When your mount point directories are ready, mount both images with the sector size and start block information you have gathered in previous step:

# mount 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img -o loop,offset=$(( 512 * 8192)) img1/
# mount 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img -o loop,offset=$(( 512 * 122880)) img2/

Confirm that both images are mounted:

# ls img1/
bootcode.bin  config.txt    fixup.dat    issue.txt             kernel.img    start.elf
cmdline.txt   fixup_cd.dat  fixup_x.dat  kernel_emergency.img  start_cd.elf  start_x.elf
# ls img2/
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  selinux  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var


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