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I'm using some compression software that requires a USB dongle to operate. There's nothing special about the dongle, it's just a usb drive with files on it. We're attempting to move the operation into AWS, so I'd like to be able to virtualize the drive since we can't really plug it in.

I've tried using substr to mount it, but the application is only looking for removable drives, and will not recognize the substr drive.

Is there a way to tell substr to mount it as removeable, or another way to do this? Maybe make an ISO and mount that, or would that appear as a CD drive? I have not been able to track down how to do this, it seems everyone wants to mount ISO's from USB drives, not as them.

This is sort of a continuation from How to mount a .bin image file in linux but it morphed into a different problem altogether, so I figured I'd ask a new question with the relevant info rather than making a gigantic comment chain.

I have a drive, which I believe is fat32, that I cannot mount:

> file-sk: /dev/dm-2: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "BSD 4.4",
sectors/cluster 64, heads 255, sectors 3907024821 (volumes > 32 MB) , FAT (32 bit),
sectors/FAT 476816, reserved3 0x1000000, reserved 0x1, serial number 0x5cb415f7,
label: "SOURCE-PSE " DOS executable (COM), boot code –

When I try to mount, it gives the filesystem/badblock error, and this is the dmesg

> mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/dm-2 /mnt/bsp2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/loop1p1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

> dmesg | tail
[155824.015650] FAT: IO charset iso8859-1 not found

User osgx led me down the path that the reason that iso isn't found, is because it's not loaded in the kernel. My kernal config is here: http://pastebin.com/j7iS7RF3

I listed the relevant mods I could find, and modprobed all of them.

> modprobe -l | grep fs
kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko
kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko
kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.ko
kernel/fs/configfs/configfs.ko
kernel/fs/fscache/fscache.ko
kernel/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
kernel/fs/fat/fat.ko
kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko
kernel/fs/fat/msdos.ko
kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko
kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko
kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko
kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko
kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko
kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko
kernel/fs/ufs/ufs.ko
kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko

The important one I believed to me isofs. But when I run modinfo on it, it says it's just iso9660. Since I'm assuming I need iso8559-1 (or 7), I guess it's not available? It's clearly listed in the kernel config as m which I thought it meant it would install as a module, but I'm not seeing those iso types available. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks!

I used the AWS import service to import a large (2TB) drive, and they dropped two .bin files in my S3 account. Their instructions say to stripe together to EBS volumes to make a drive large enough to hold the image and then to just use that.

Well I've got everything striped and whatnot, but I don't know what to do with this .bin image. Doesn't seem to work with mount, or at least, not without any options, and I don't know what options to put.

>file -k image-NPX7P-0000.bin
image-NPX7P-0000.bin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xb, starthead 1, startsector 63, 3907024821 sectors, extended partition table (last)\011, code offset 0x0

>file -k image-NPX7P-0001.bin
image-NPX7P-0001.bin: data

EDIT: I appended the file info, and from the looks of it, I'd assume the reason I can't mount just 0000 is because 0001 is an extension of it (which tracks with how I assume they did this). But how would I merge the two and mount that?

EDIT2: Using osgx's answer, I was able to get the two bin files catted together, and used kpartx to read the partition table.

> file-sk: /dev/dm-2: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "BSD 4.4", sectors/cluster 64, heads 255, sectors 3907024821 (volumes > 32 MB) , FAT (32 bit), sectors/FAT 476816, reserved3 0x1000000, reserved 0x1, serial number 0x5cb415f7, label: "SOURCE-PSE " DOS executable (COM), boot code –

This still will not mount however. It says it requires a filesystem type, and nothing I've used helps. Also posted to a pastebin because it's long is my kernal config of the relevant (maybe) values:

http://pastebin.com/j7iS7RF3

I have about 6 TB of files I need to move from one server to another. I did my best to move it over FTP like below, but the connection dies a lot, and after a certain amount of progress, it disconnects before it even resumes moving files from I presume taking too long to compare files before actually transferring and then timing out.

~/ncftp-3.2.3/bin/ncftpput -R -z -v -u "user" -p "password" upload.server.net /local/dir/ remote/dir/

I'm trying to get the remote server to give me access with SSH so I can set up an rsync, but is there anything more stable I can do over ftp, so maybe it'll try on it's own to resume without recomparing the entire file lists?