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had to dissect the very unusual boot drive situation we used for much of 2024, and discovered to my delight that, if you have a raw disk image (i.e. dd if=/dev/sda of=foobar.img), then 7-zip on Windows can extract individual partitions and grab files from an ext4 filesystem!
what a wonderful, indispensable piece of software 7-zip is
![Screenshot of a 7-zip window (on Windows 10) showing the path "E:\ex-ExCathedra\ext4.img\Projects\2024\loss32\". Inside this folder, we can see folders named "reactos", "scripts", "wine", "wineprefix-cursed" and "wineprefix-dev", and a file called "curse.sh". The columns show among other things the UNIX mode information, modified/created/accessed dates, inode number, number of links, and user and group IDs.](https://social.noyu.me/fileserver/01K5XEEZF4A486Z2PRS7NHG169/attachment/small/01KCAJE6J4DYC0PTYSV21CPW5M.jpg "Screenshot of a 7-zip window (on Windows 10) showing the path \"E:\ex-ExCathedra\ext4.img\Projects\2024\loss32\\". Inside this folder, we can see folders named \"reactos\", \"scripts\", \"wine\", \"wineprefix-cursed\" and \"wineprefix-dev\", and a file called \"curse.sh\". The columns show among other things the UNIX mode information, modified/created/accessed dates, inode number, number of links, and user and group IDs.")
![Screenshot of a 7-zip window (on Windows 10) showing the path "E:\ex-ExCathedra\ext4.img\Projects\2024\loss32\". Inside this folder, we can see folders named "reactos", "scripts", "wine", "wineprefix-cursed" and "wineprefix-dev", and a file called "curse.sh". The columns show among other things the UNIX mode information, modified/created/accessed dates, inode number, number of links, and user and group IDs.](https://social.noyu.me/fileserver/01K5XEEZF4A486Z2PRS7NHG169/attachment/original/01KCAJE6J4DYC0PTYSV21CPW5M.png "Screenshot of a 7-zip window (on Windows 10) showing the path \"E:\ex-ExCathedra\ext4.img\Projects\2024\loss32\\". Inside this folder, we can see folders named \"reactos\", \"scripts\", \"wine\", \"wineprefix-cursed\" and \"wineprefix-dev\", and a file called \"curse.sh\". The columns show among other things the UNIX mode information, modified/created/accessed dates, inode number, number of links, and user and group IDs.")
@hikari 7z files are ext4 containers??
@scathach no