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[WF_H]

Hi,

A very simple question (now it is ): can a Xen disk image be converted to a diskpartition?
Someone is asking whether I can host his disk image at his current host, which he is leaving for poor I/O (wonder why that would be ). I can host a diskimage, but I don't like diskimages (slow, and 100GB isn't very 'comfortable' either). Is there any way out there to convert a disk image into a normal partition?

[PCS-Chris]

Easiest thing is to just mount the image, and if you create a seperate partition just move the files over.

e.g. mount -o loop /mnt/path image.img - then you can access it as /mnt/path

[WF_H]

Sorry, should have mentioned it's a Windows disk image.. NTFS..

[scheidel21]

This is awful late in being posted. But you could simply mount the partition and dd block by block copy the disk image to a volume as slong as it is the same size or larger than the disk image file system size. i.e 100GB for 100GB