How to mount the android img file under linux?
I have found a simple solution: http://andwise.net/?p=403
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This is for all who want to unpack and modify the original system.img that you can flash using recovery. system.img (which you get from the google factory images for example) represents a sparse ext4 loop mounted file system. It is mounted into /system of your device. Note that this tutorial is for ext4 file system. You may have system image which is yaffs2, for example.
The way it is mounted on Galaxy Nexus:
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
Prerequisites:
- Linux box or virtual machine
- simg2img and make_ext4fs binaries, which can be downloaded from the linux package android-tools-fsutils
Procedure:
Place your system.img and the 2 binaries in one directory, and make sure the binaries have exec permission.
Part 1 – mount the file-system
mkdir sys
./simg2img system.img sys.raw
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop sys.raw sys/
Then you have your system partition mounted in ‘sys/’ and you can modify whatever you want in ‘sys/’. For example de-odex apks and framework jars.
Part 2 – create a new flashable system image
sudo ./make_ext4fs -s -l 512M -a system new.img sys/
sudo umount sys
rm -fr sys
Now you can simply type:
fastboot flash system new.img
In Android file system, "system.img" and "userdata.img" are VMS Alpha executable. "system.img" and "userdata.img" have the contents of /system and /data directory on root file system. They are mapped on NAND devices with yaffs2 file system. Now, yaffs2 image file can not be mounted on linux PC. If you can, maybe you got some rom that not packed in yaffs2 file system. You can check those rom file by execute the command:
file <system.img/userdata.img>
If it show "VMS Alpha executable" then you can use "unyaffs" to extract it.
See the answer at: http://omappedia.org/wiki/Android_eMMC_Booting#Modifying_.IMG_Files
First you need to "uncompress" userdata.img with simg2img, then you can mount it via the loop device.