Re: backing up a drive
Mike Smith wrote:
I'd prefer you not to top post.
Hmm... Doesn't the hard drive's MBR have the disk size on it?
Yes, but the MBR is not part of any partition. Using dd on
/hda1 uses the partition, not the physical disc.
(I know that's the case with floppy disks - I made Windows think a
1.44mbfloppy was
33.6 mb once. The power of a hex editor ;-) )
You edited the BR, not the MBR, as a floppy doesn't have an MBR.
On 3/21/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Philippe De Ryck wrote:
Well, according to me a dd of a live system is a really bad idea. The
safest way is just boot with a live linux CD (knoppix for instance) and
dump the partitions from the HDD. Do NOT dump a mounted partition.
This was my thought on the matter as well, use Knoppix or Kanotix, or
other LiveCD. Um, I believe mounting Read Only would be ok.
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Mike
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