On September 22, 2019 8:07:21 AM PDT, Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)email.com> wrote:
$ sudo losetup -f -P /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img
losetup: /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img: failed to set up loop device:
No such file or directory
That file didn't exist like it says.
$ sudo mount -o loop /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.log /mnt/test
But now I get:
mount: /mnt/test: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
So, I looked at (as per
https://askubuntu.com/questions/634501/cant-mount-iso-file-as-loop-device...):
$file /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.log
and I got:
/home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.log: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 :
ID=0x83, start-CHS (0x0,32,33), end-CHS (0x3ec,254,63), startsector
2048, 16143277 sectors
You wrote the image to that file. Losetup on that file should work like you expect.