[Q] Mount loop device on rooted android devices topic

I have been trying to mount an image file on my device with no success. The image was created on a linux PC with dd and formated with a DOS partition table and a single ext2 partition. All three devices I have tried this on do not find the partition (should be /dev/block/loop5p1 according to fdisk on the android device).

Code:

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busybox losetup /dev/block/loop5 /sdcard/m.img
busybox mount -t ext2 /dev/block/loop5 /sdcard/mnt

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This returns invalid argument, probably because it is not a partition.

Code:

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busybox losetup /dev/block/loop5 /sdcard/m.img
busybox mount -t ext2 /dev/block/loop5p1

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This returns device not found because android will not find the partitions.

Is there a way to make this image mount or could I create a file system on the image without a partition table (mkfs.ext2 /dev/block/loop5) and try to mount it?

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