From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 15:13: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studict.student.utwente.nl (studict.student.utwente.nl [130.89.220.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F165737B496 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl) Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by studict.student.utwente.nl (8.9.3/MQT) with ESMTP id AAA11670; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:12:57 +0200 (METDST) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:13:55 +0200 (West-Europa (zomertijd)) From: Rogier Steehouder Reply-To: Rogier Steehouder To: Ken Seggerman Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: using dd to copy a DOS partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mail from Ken Seggerman, sent 20-04-2001: > 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? You can mount a file using vnconfig: # vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 # mount -t msdos /dev/vn0 /mnt Then use diff or similar to verify the backup. with kind regards, Rogier Steehouder -- ___ _ -O_\ Rogier Steehouder // | / mailto:r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl //\ / \ http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.j.steehouder/ // \ --------------------------------------------------------- "Bet you can't put it through the eye." "Left or right?" - Femeref Archers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message