You didn't mention what Unix platform you are on. But since a striaght dd didn't work, you need to use seek to skip some blocks.
-----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi all: I need to move a SYSTEM datafile from a filesystem to a raw device. I have shutdown the database, copied the file via dd if=system of=/dev/raw renamed the file in the database, but couldn't open the database because of the error: Unknown File Header Version read for file number 1. I tried another dd: dd if=system of=/dev/raw obs=32768 (32K is the db block size), but I got the same error. Can anyone see what else could be wrong with my dd command thanks Gene __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Gurelei INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Richard Ji INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
