gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:53:18 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] dd and mount help


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:38:18AM -0500, Sean Finney wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:06:46AM -0400, dwild+plug@starforce.com wrote:
> > use /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd1 to make sure you get the entire disk 
> > (you will end up with an unmountable full-disk image once the 
> unmountable?

I think the intended meaning was "unbootable", and that'd be true.
(/dev/hdd1 will get you only partition 1, as opposed to all of the
disk.)

You probably really want to be dealing with a raw (character),
rather than a block, device anyway. See raw(8).

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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