Linux: Fun with Command Line Utilities

From ReceptiveIT

ChMod - Change Mode

Recursively chmod directories only

find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

This will recursively search your directory tree (starting at dir ‘dot’) and chmod 775 all directories only.

Recursively chmod files only

This will recursively search your directory tree (starting at dir ‘dot’) and chmod 664 all files only.

find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Mounting a disk image

Sometimes you will be in the situation where you have used a utility like dd to create an image of a disk utility, but that disk image has a partition table with multiple partitions. You know you can use the loopback module to mount the disk image, but how do you mount a specific partition on that disk image? Let me show you how easy it is.

Step 1 - Find the image geometry

root@holland:/virtual# fdisk -u -l venetian-broken.img 
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk venetian-broken.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0940093f

              Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
venetian-broken.img1   *          63    41913584    20956761    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2608, 254, 63)
venetian-broken.img2        41913585    83875364    20980890    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(1023, 0, 1) logical=(2609, 0, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(5220, 254, 63)
root@holland:/virtual# 

Step 2 - Mount the image

When using the mount command, you can tell it to start the mount at a specific offset. You get that offset by multiplying the Unit size by the number of units. In the example above, to mount the second partition, it would be 512 x 41913585 = 21459755520

root@holland:/virtual# mount -t auto -o loop,offset=21459755520 /virtual/venetian.img /mnt/recovery