On 2020-04-30 22:21, Andrea Conti wrote:
It won't, as long as it recognizes it as a protective MBR. Which is the
right thing to do, as a disk with a protective MBR and no valid GPT is
inherently broken.
True. It was more my intention to depict what the system "should" do in
order to access the file system.
... or just bypass the partition table altogether. The filesystem
starts at sector 1, i.e. 1*512B, so:
mount -o ro,offset=512 /dev/sdb /mnt/xxx
Interesting, thanks. I was initially considering something like this
myself, but after a cursory check of the manual, I was under the
assumption that 'offset' was only valid with loop devices and dismissed
that solution.
Turns out if you mount a drive like this, the kernel uses a loop device
in the background and you can use the 'offset' option with block devices
as well. I feel the documentation could be improved here.
--
Wolf
