This is so arcane to me. Like, I more or less understand your high-level explanation, but then you gloss over “including the block offset” but how would one do that ??
Inspecting the file with a hex editor would give you lots of useful info in this case. If you know approximately what the data should look like, you can just see where the garbage (header) ends and the data starts. I’ve reverse engineered data files from an oscilloscope like this.
Well, in this scenario the image file had 512 bytes sections, each one is called a block. If you have a KiB (a kibibyte = 1024 bytes) it will occupy 2 blocks and so on…
Since this image file had a header with 512 bytes (i.e. a block) I could, in any of the relevant Linux mounting software (e.g. mount, losetup), choose an offset adding to the starting block of a partition. The command would look like this:
sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((header+partition)) img_file /mnt
This is so arcane to me. Like, I more or less understand your high-level explanation, but then you gloss over “including the block offset” but how would one do that ??
Inspecting the file with a hex editor would give you lots of useful info in this case. If you know approximately what the data should look like, you can just see where the garbage (header) ends and the data starts. I’ve reverse engineered data files from an oscilloscope like this.
Well, in this scenario the image file had 512 bytes sections, each one is called a block. If you have a KiB (a kibibyte = 1024 bytes) it will occupy 2 blocks and so on…
Since this image file had a header with 512 bytes (i.e. a block) I could, in any of the relevant Linux mounting software (e.g.
mount,losetup), choose an offset adding to the starting block of a partition. The command would look like this:sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((header+partition)) img_file /mnt