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Let’s say you have cloned a partition or volume group and you need to extract some files from the image. This worked for me:

• Prepare a large disk in Linux
• Download and install Partclone from http://sourceforge.net/projects/partclone/
• Find out the compression algorithm of your image with the file command
file VolGroup00-LogVol00.ext3-pctl-img.gz.aa
• Combine files, uncompress it (in this case with gzip) and create the image file
cat VolGroup00-LogVol00.ext3-pctl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s – -O /dir-to-new-image/image-name.img
• Mount the uncompressed image
mount -o loop /dir-to-new-image/image-name.img /mnt/name