Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:07:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: danderso@crystalsugar.com (Dale Anderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Raw wd Message-ID: <199904202007.QAA10390@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <s71c94a3.093@mail> from Dale Anderson at "Apr 20, 99 02:52:12 pm"
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[Your message was all on one line. Mangled by your MUA I assume. Reformatted for clarity.] Dale Anderson wrote, > I can't imagine how you would be able to write to a raw > unformatted disk partition. The only way would be to write your own > disk access utilities, which would mean that you would create a > proprietary disk format of your own, that only your access routines > could get to. > Sounds a bit scarry, in my opinion. I don't understand why that would be true (althoug it may be). I can write to a raw tape just fine with tar. I can do the same thing and tar directly to a floppy, no filesystem or special utilities needed (not that tar is not very special to me). Why can't I do the same with a hard drive? Plus, I've seen more than one mention of people using 'dd' to clone disks (not _that_ scares _me_). If it is true that it does not work for a hard drive, what is the fundamental difference between writing a tar archive to a raw tape, a raw floppy disk, or a raw hard disk? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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