Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Dru
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 11), Matthew Seaman said: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Dru wrote: Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered

dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Dru
Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to single-user mode? Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Dru wrote: Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to single-user mode? I assume you're talking

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 11), Matthew Seaman said: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Dru wrote: Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:54 AM Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to