Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

5
  • Thanks for replying! However, after selecting the correct device and partition, I'm getting mount: /mnt/ubuntu: special device /dev/loop3p3 does not exist.. Any idea what might be the issue? Commented Dec 19, 2022 at 8:56
  • Like I wrote: You may have to run partprobe. Also do make sure it’s the correct partition!
    – Daniel B
    Commented Dec 19, 2022 at 9:04
  • 2
    You need to use losetup --partscan to activate partition support for a loop device. It's not enabled by default. Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 10:45
  • @user1686 Interesting, I was not aware of this option. Maybe it’s a somewhat recent addition. I added it to the answer.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 13:19
  • It's a 2011 addition, although I was wrong about "partition support" as it turns out the exact same commit also made it possible for partprobe etc. to manually add partitions even without kernel partition scanning being enabled. Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 14:13