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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:59:19 +1000
From:      Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Creating EXACT image of a CD
Message-ID:  <3AD784C7.B7F0B80A@quake.com.au>
References:  <3AD68EBA.EC6A8380@quake.com.au> <20010413135052.H75296@scientia.demon.co.uk>

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Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> Kal Torak wrote:
> 
> > I want to create exact ISO images of CD's...
> > Like create the file system using the exact same file names and
> > structure, not just copying the data... If there are null sectors on
> > the CD or something then I want them to be part of the image...
> >
> > So yeah basically an exact image of it :)
> >
> > Anyway what tools for FreeBSD can I use to do this? with certain
> > options to mkisofs can it be done? or using dd or something?
> 
> yeah, you should just be able to use dd.
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=exact-image.iso bs=2k
> 
> other block sizes may work too, you could experiment.  I think with data
> CDs it has to be a multiple of 2k, couldn't swear to that though.

Hmmm is there a tool to check the block size of a file system?

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