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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:54:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   reading/writing raw disk partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912301622380.70182-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912301328310.28140-100000@greg.ad9.com>

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Does there exist any utility that runs under FreeBSD and can read and
write directly to disk partitions, regardless of the format?  For example,
if I had a NTFS partition and another Linux ext2fs partition, is it
possible to use a FreeBSD utility to dump both of those partitions to a
file, then if needed later, restore them back to the original partition?
I don't expect to be able to read the individual files on those
partitions, of course, but I would like to be able to dump and restore
the entire partition from FreeBSD if at all possible.

Ken Bolingbroke
hacker@bolingbroke.com



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