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| author | Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com> | 2011-08-17 23:10:37 +0530 |
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| committer | Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com> | 2011-08-22 15:40:18 +0200 |
| commit | fa7074f35c67ff1ef29f1aea5a484c5dea25863a (patch) | |
| tree | d12d4c4bb18802fd92549c9f5e8c8ce1aa1811b1 | |
| parent | db544f76990d9c4d7d1434b4ac94c5ae530eb3e5 (diff) | |
| download | multipath-tools-fa7074f35c67ff1ef29f1aea5a484c5dea25863a.tar.gz | |
Add kpartx example to manpage
Thanks: Lars Wirzenius
Closes: 637538
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kpartx/kpartx.8 b/kpartx/kpartx.8 index 5d73d31..795a2e0 100644 --- a/kpartx/kpartx.8 +++ b/kpartx/kpartx.8 @@ -34,6 +34,26 @@ force GUID partition table (GPT) .TP .B \-v Operate verbosely +.SH EXAMPLE +To mount all the partitions in a raw disk image: +.IP +kpartx -av disk.img +.PP +This will output lines such as: +.IP +loop3p1 : 0 20964762 /dev/loop3 63 +.PP +The +.I loop3p1 +is the name of a device file under +.I /dev/mapper +which you can use to access the partition, for example to fsck it: +.IP +fsck /dev/mapper/loop3p1 +.PP +When you're done, you need to remove the devices: +.IP +kpartx -d disk.img .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR multipath (8) .BR multipathd (8) |