From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 16:54: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E900151B4 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@bolingbroke.com) Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA72440 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:54:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:54:05 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: reading/writing raw disk partitions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message