On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:19, Brian Dessent wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > I just tried to dd the first 163 GB of a raw drive to a image file. > > > > It failed at about 145 GB. Should it work? > > > > I had plenty of free space. > > > > I'm using cygwin.dll ver. 1.5.5 and a recent dd (I think, see cygcheck -s output). > > > > === Session Log > > $ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/todds > > Just a completely random guess here: Is 'physicaldrive2' an active > system drive? IIRC there are some parts of windows that cannot be read > by anything but the kernel itself, such as the SAM database (or > something along those lines.) If this is the case then you'd have to do > the image when the partition is not active. I don't know how or if > tools like Ghost get around this. > > Brian
No, it is not an active system drive. By chance this drive had its partition table blown away. Win2k is not even assigning it a drive letter. Also, if you look at the dd output >> dd: writing `/cygdrive/e/full_image': Permission denied 35838209+0 records in 35838208+0 records out >> You see that the failure was on the write, not on the read. I have over 50 GB free even with that file in place, so I'm definately not short of space. Also, I believe NTFS for Win2k has a 2 TB filesize max., so that should not be a problem. Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/