[SLUG] mystery file

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 16:40:36 EST


So I've got this file:

-r-------- 1 root root 116G Feb 21 2007 /mnt/temp2/hda

(BTW, /mnt/temp2 is itself a mounted partition on a USB drive.)

So far I've done this:

root@pc:~# losetup /dev/loop2 /mnt/temp2/hda
root@pc:~# fdisk -l /dev/loop2

Disk /dev/loop2: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/loop2p1 * 1 5135 41246856 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/loop2p2 5136 15017 79377165 7 HPFS/NTFS

OK, how do I mount them (read-only is fine, I just want to see what's
there)? Probably it's merely a CYA backup before I resized the partitions.

I have a feeling it's something akin to

root@pc:~# mount /dev/loop2 /mnt/temp3 -t ntfs -o ro,offset=8225280

but I don't know what the offset should be. If I can get rid of that file,
it would free up >100 GB.

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