Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011, at 09:45:44 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote:
>> what do u mean by "live running file system"?
>> a mounted file system?
>
> Yes. Debian is installed and running on sda and I am trying to
> overwrite the current installation with this disk image.
to my understanding, writing with dd on a mounted device leads to
unpredictable results, and never guarantees to work.
and i think your problem was not caused by differences in dd builds,
it was different behaviours of the systems on a modified mounted root
partition.
Cheers,
Tao
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