Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso
I am nearly giving up, can't understand what I am doing wrong or what I
should be doing.
Thomas Schmitt:
> Hi,
>
> GiaThnYgeia wrote:
>> Is something wrong?
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 user 458752 Mar 9 00:08 usb_part1.iso
>
> That's much too small for any backup with substance.
> What do you get from
>
> xorriso -indev usb_part1.iso -find / -exec lsdl --
$ xorriso -indev sid1.iso -find / -exec lsdl --
xorriso 1.4.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
xorriso : NOTE : Loading ISO image tree from LBA 0
Drive current: -indev 'sid1.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is written , is appendable
Media summary: 1 session, 27 data blocks, 54.0k data, 458g free
Volume id : 'ISOIMAGE'
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 0 Nov 24 11:14 '/'
On media this shows the 2nd system partition as a directory
/media/user/1340a59d-7c08-4257-a81d-9cb8ef707c0e
>
> Is the USB stick content visible underneath
> /mnt/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_3.0_08606E69C773BFC06965007B-0:0-part1
> at all ?
>
> If the mount point was really a link, one would have to enable link
> following at least for files which are given as program arguments:
>
> xorriso \
> -for_backup \
> -follow default:param \
> -outdev usb_part1.iso \
> -map /mnt/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_3.0_08606E69C773BFC06965007B-0:0-part1 /
xorriso 1.4.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
Drive current: -outdev 'siduct1.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is written , is appendable
Media summary: 1 session, 27 data blocks, 54.0k data, 458g free
xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot determine attributes of source file
'/media/user/DebonUSB
/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_3.0_08606E69C773BFC06965007B-0:0-part1' : No
such file or directory
> But with default -follow settings you would have gotten an error message:
> xorriso : FAILURE : Source '/mnt/usb-...' is not a directory. Target '' would be.
>
> So i assume that the USB stick content was simply not available under
> the /mnt/usb-... directory.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
> Thomas
You have a great one too!
I;m going back to try more dd options
--
"The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG
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