Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 28 September 2007 03:08, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Dd is just a fancy copy program. It does not format the data it > > transfers. > > Actually, it does: > > ] DD(1) User Commands DD(1) > ] > ] > ] NAME > ] dd - convert and copy

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-28 Thread Carlos E. R.
Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Dd is just a fancy copy program. It does not format the data it > transfers. Actually, it does: ] DD(1) User Commands DD(1) ] ] ] NAME ] dd - convert and copy a file ^^^ ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/27 20:56 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> The desired sectors are beyond the last full cylinder on disk. Not >> being within any filesystem, ordinary file viewers wouldn't be able >> to find them even if part of a file. > That is nonsensical. If th

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 27 September 2007 20:44, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/27 20:22 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 > >> and the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data > >> I sho

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/27 20:22 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 and >> the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data I >> should be able to do: >> dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=15630

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 27 September 2007 17:54, Felix Miata wrote: > Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 and > the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data I > should be able to do: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=156301440 count=1 bs=512 Dd is just a fa

Re: [opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/27 20:54 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata apparently typed: > Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 and the DD > man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data I should be able to > do: > dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=156301440 count=1 bs=512 > However

[opensuse] help with DD

2007-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 and the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data I should be able to do: dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=156301440 count=1 bs=512 However, doing that generates a somefile.bin file of purported size of 76319M (8