On Wednesday 25 February 2004 03:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > one thing about dd,
<snip> > when dd reads the filesystem through the block device, it > will get corrupted versions of some files *if* there are other > raw i/o operations unrelating to the dumping procedure. right. but for his requirements, i think it works. he just wants to use it for making images of the drives, and then restoring at will. and the boxes are windows, but he will do the backup and restore from a knoppix or other live CD. if he does that (and if he's careful about unmounting the FAT and NTFS partitions, if knoppix automatically mounts them), there should be no problems. there probably won't be problems anyway even if he doesn't unmount since he won't be reading/writing to the FAT/NTFS partitions at all while backing up or restoring. > the point is, it is safest to dump on an unmounted, on a read-only > or on a idle filesystem, syncing it first befored dumping it. but of course, he should do all that anyway before running dd or whatever tool he uses. :). i didn't go into any of that since the requirement implied that there would be no updates to the filesystems while they were being read or written. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" I am being nibbled to death by ducks. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
