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imagemount - Utility to mount an image created by partclone or ntfsclone.

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  Examples  See Also  Bug Reporting 

NAME

imagemount − Utility to mount an image created by partclone or ntfsclone.

SYNOPSIS

imagemount -d nbd-dev -f image-file [-c change-file] [-m mount-point [-t mount-type]] [-v verbose] [-DrwTR]

DESCRIPTION

imagemount creates network block devices from images created by partclone(8) and optionally mounts the image on the file system.

OPTIONS

-d DEVICE

Use specified nbd device as block device.

-f IMAGE-FILE

Use specified file as source for the image.

-c CHANGE-FILE

Use specified file to store written data.

-m MOUNT-POINT

Mount block device on this mount point.

-t MOUNT-TYPE

Mount block device as this type of file system.

-i TIMEOUT

Set a NBD timeout on the block device

-v VERBOSE

Select logging level.

-D

Toggle daemon mode (default on).

-r

Enable read-only mode.

-w

Enable write to image (if change file not specified, then changes are stored in IMAGE-FILE.cf)

-T

Enable ’tolerant’ mode. Try to make the best of what data is present.

-R

Enable raw image mode. Allow file to be treated as a raw imagetop

Examples

Mount image /dir/image using /dev/nbd0 on /mountpoint with type fstype in read-write mode. (Note that changes to the filesystem will be stored in /dir/image.cf)
imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f /dir/image -m /mountpoint -t fstype -w

Use image /dir/image as network block device /dev/nbd0 in read-only mode.
imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f /dir/image -r

See Also

partclone(8)

Bug Reporting

Please report bugs to [email protected]


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se