From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 14:10: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49EB37B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from suleyman@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (suleyman@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f3KLA2N05222 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:10:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:10:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: using dd to copy a DOS partition Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings: Somebody at an Open Source OS install fest suggested that I could copy an entire DOS partition to a file on a remote a UNIX file system by using dd. I just used dd: dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/mnt/backups/windows/filename.iso 1644993+0 records in 1644993+0 recoreds out 842236416 bytes transferred in 1599.248182 secs (526645 bytes/sec I did not specify anything in the bs= field of dd. The dd command worked. Will this give me a viable backup? The only way I could tell for for sure on my own would be by blowing away the DOS partition in question and trying to restore it with dd. If it failed it would mean reformatting the hard drive from scratch reinstalling Windows 95 on the whole thing and then partitioning and reinstalling FreeBSD. Any suggestions would be welcome. Ken Seggerman suleyman@echonyc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message