backing up amiga hard drives with linux dd

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From within linux, is it possible to mount the dd image, not the hd, and access the contents? I think I'm using FFS on the HD.

should work by using a loopback device.

see this

http://www.andremiller.net/content/mounting-hard-disk-image-including-partitions-using-linux

but instead you will be using affs filesystem (-t affs)

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I did create an image, and then try to mount the image using the "-o loop." And I get exactly the same no valid root block found error message.

you cant just mount it like that. if you read the link, you will see you have to get the offset into each partition. you can do that by using 'parted' on the image.

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what version of parted? It does support amiga partition tables and I have used it in the past on an amiga image im sure.

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erm. are you sure you are using the commandline parted?
my version with ubuntu is 1.8.9 for example. You tried parted from the commandline ?

anyway gparted which is what I think you gave me the version number for does use libparted so it should work with an amiga partition table.