Mounting Raw Disk Image File in Nautilus

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. As part of SD card creation, I have a script that successfully creates a raw disk image file, correctly formatted with an ext2 file system. I have built SD cards from the raw disk image file with dd.

Now, I'd like to mount it and browse the files using Nautilus.

I know I can use mount -o,loop to mount it to a mount point. I would like to get it mounted by gnome to an automatically created /media/xxx mount point. I have used partprobe /dev/loopn to get the file noticed. It appears in my Places menu and if I select it fro开发者_如何学编程m there, nautilus opens the disk, just fine.

What I would like to do is get my script to kick nautilus so its file browser window opens the image file's root without having to select it from the Places menu.

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You could also use gvfs-mount.

List mountable devices

gvfs-mount -li 

Mount device file found above from label

gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdaX

Nautilus uses the same underlying library (gvfs)

After that you can use

nautilus /media/LABEL

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if you know the path to the directory you can use gnome-open like:

gnome-open /media/xxx

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You can use gnome-disk-image-mounter (probably with option --writable) to mount an image using Gnome, which itself will be available by Nautilus.

If you want a graphical application like Nautilus to browse the files, why do you not configure it to mount images by itself? With 'right-click|Properties|Open With' you can just use gnome-disk-image-mounter to do the task you want, including opening the folder.
See my answer to another question to open the image writeable.