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Subject: Re: OT: fdisk
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On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I should have mentioned that before. dd was the first thing I tried.
>> I had an unused drive setup as UFS. Then did
>>
>> dd if=/dev/da1s1 of=/dev/ad12s1d bs=1m count=2000
>
> I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1
> (without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to
> a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system, such
> as /mnt/my_disk_image.img

Further, only the first 2G of a 500G NTFS filesystem will probably not 
be usable.  A quick search found this (old) article: 
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/ntfs/