On 19/05/12 11:43, Stuart Bird wrote:
If you are not fussy about the container format you could use the "libewf"
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/) set of tools to do what you want.
"ewf" refers to the Expert Witness Compression format which is used
extensively in the digital forensic field. It's basically a compressed
container with additional metadata built into the format. There are about 9
compression levels to choose from!
"sudo apt-get install ewf-tools libewf-dev" should get you a working set of
tools. The two you will need to look at are "ewfacquire" and "ewfmount".
There are man pages for all of the tools.
Thanks, this looks like a good way to do what I want.
I also found cloop-utils which allows for a compressed image to be loop
mounted, together with tools to convert images (well strictly speaking the
image from dd is "the same" as a raw hard disk as far as the operating system
is concerned so converting an image is the same as creating a new image from
hard disk).
EWF looks for flexible, although I don't think I'll need the flexibility. It
looks more interesting though!
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