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Hi everyone,

 

I want to mount .vmdk file of centos machine. I tried vmware-mount command, but i have a trouble.

 

I could mount partiton 1, but when i tried mount partition 3, I got below error even though this partition isn't swap partition. How can i fix this..

 

 

# vmware-mount -p mavenrepo.vmdk

Nr      Start       Size Type Id Sytem                  
-- ---------- ---------- ---- -- ------------------------
1       2048     512000 BIOS 83 Linux
2     514048    8388608 BIOS 82 Linux swap
3    8902656   74983424 BIOS 83 Linux
# vmware-mount mavenrepo.vmdk 1 /mnt
# ls /mnt

config-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64  grub                                      initrd-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img  symvers-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64.gz   System.map-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64  vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
config-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64  initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64.img  initrd-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img  symvers-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64.gz   System.map-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
config-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64   initramfs-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.img  initrd-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img   symvers-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.gz        vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64
config-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64   initramfs-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64.img   lost+found                                  System.map-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64  vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
config-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64        initramfs-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64.img   symvers-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64.gz       System.map-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64  vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64
efi                                initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img        symvers-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.gz       System.map-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64   vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64
# vmware-mount -d /mnt
# vmware-mount mavenrepo.vmdk 3 /mnt

/dev/loop0 looks like swapspace - not mounted
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Failed to mount partition 3 of disk 'mavenrepo.vmdk' on '/mnt': A loop device operation failed

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