Date: 20 Apr 2001 16:28:47 -0500 From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using dd to copy a DOS partition Message-ID: <987802128.1634.13.camel@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104201654140.29533-100000@echonyc.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104201654140.29533-100000@echonyc.com>
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Dos partitions are FAT. ISO is a filesystem of its own (ISO9660 for CDs) This type of backup command doesn't make sense then.. dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/mnt/backups/windows/filename.iso Dave On 20 Apr 2001 17:10:01 -0400, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Greetings: > > Somebody at an Open Source OS install fest suggested that I could copy an > entire DOS partition to a file on a remote a UNIX file system by using dd. > > I just used dd: > > dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/mnt/backups/windows/filename.iso > 1644993+0 records in > 1644993+0 recoreds out > 842236416 bytes transferred in 1599.248182 secs (526645 bytes/sec > > I did not specify anything in the bs= field of dd. > > The dd command worked. Will this give me a viable backup? > > The only way I could tell for for sure on my own would be by blowing away > the DOS partition in question and trying to restore it with dd. If it > failed it would mean reformatting the hard drive from scratch reinstalling > Windows 95 on the whole thing and then partitioning and reinstalling > FreeBSD. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. > > > Ken Seggerman > > suleyman@echonyc.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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