libguestfs > losetup > fdisk I.E. libguestfs is safer when dealing with images of unknown origin, and losetup has inbuilt support now for partition scanning.

libguestfs > losetup > fdisk I.E. libguestfs is safer when dealing with images of unknown origin, and losetup has inbuilt support now for partition scanning. Here's an old fdisk/parted wrapper I used to use: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh