If you have been using virtualisation technologies such as XEN, you would of come across the usage of disk images to store our operating system and data on. To create one of these we run: dd if=/dev/zero of=mydisk.img bs=1024k count=0 seek=5000 This would have created for me an image which is approximately 5GB in size. [...]The post HowTo: Mounting Partitions within a XEN domU disk Image appeared first on tidyhosts.