From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 13:10:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B141506D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id QAA10390; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:07:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904202007.QAA10390@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Using Raw wd In-Reply-To: from Dale Anderson at "Apr 20, 99 02:52:12 pm" To: danderso@crystalsugar.com (Dale Anderson) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:07:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Your message was all on one line. Mangled by your MUA I assume. Reformatted for clarity.] Dale Anderson wrote, > I can't imagine how you would be able to write to a raw > unformatted disk partition. The only way would be to write your own > disk access utilities, which would mean that you would create a > proprietary disk format of your own, that only your access routines > could get to. > Sounds a bit scarry, in my opinion. I don't understand why that would be true (althoug it may be). I can write to a raw tape just fine with tar. I can do the same thing and tar directly to a floppy, no filesystem or special utilities needed (not that tar is not very special to me). Why can't I do the same with a hard drive? Plus, I've seen more than one mention of people using 'dd' to clone disks (not _that_ scares _me_). If it is true that it does not work for a hard drive, what is the fundamental difference between writing a tar archive to a raw tape, a raw floppy disk, or a raw hard disk? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message